Scalp-hunting killer meets Swedish autumn gloom. Wallander's having a worse day than you.
5.054 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestIt is autumn and the people in the otherwise peaceful small town Ystad settle down. But for Kurt Wallander broken idyll of a young woman burned to death in a cornfield. Soon after hitting a serial killer with a series of increasingly brutal murder. What is the relationship between a retired attorney general, a successful art dealer and an ordinary petty thief? Why scalp killer his victims?
Acting
Rolf Lassgård's Wallander — exhausted, human, unforgettable.
Cinematography
Swedish autumn as character: golden decay masking rot.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2001 adaptation predates the BBC Wallander by eight years and the Krister Henriksson Swedish series by four — Rolf Lassgård originated the TV Wallander, establishing the template of world-weary Scandinavian detective that would dominate global crime drama for two decades.
Director Leif Magnusson uses the three-episode structure to let dread accumulate rather than resolve — the serial format here mirrors Wallander's own inability to compartmentalize case from life, culminating in that devastating final shot of him alone in the rain.
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