SERIES 2
Kenneth Branagh returns as Inspector Wallander in three new detective dramas based on the best-selling novels Faceless Killers, The Fifth Woman and The Man Who Smiled, in which the eponymous hero fights an ever-increasing tide of crime in Ystad, southern Sweden.
Information
3 × 90’ for BBC One
Transmitted: 3rd January – 17th January 2010, 9pm
FACELESS KILLERS
Director:
Hettie Macdonald
Director of Photography:
Igor Martinivic
Written by:
Richard Cottan
THE MAN WHO SMILED
Director:
Andy Wilson
Director of Photography
Igor Martinovic
Written by:
Simon Donald & Richard Cottan
THE FIFTH WOMAN
Director:
Aisling Walsh
Director of Photography
Lukas Strebal
Written by:
Richard Cottan
Producer:
Sanne Wohlenberg
A Left Bank Pictures / Yellowbird / TKBC Production for the BBC. Co-Produced with ARD Degeto, WGBH Boston and Film I Skane & TV4. Made with support from Region of Skane, City of Ystad-Osterlen Film Bond, Sweden.
Reviews and Press
Kenneth Branagh’s won a BAFTA award for Best Actor for his performance in series 2.
Read rave rewiews from the second series:
Kevin O’Sullivan, “Returning for a new BBC1 series, Wallander is exactly the kind of drama i hate…. slow-moving, pnderious and set in the world’s least interesting country Sweden. But thanks to stunning camerawork and a mesmerising performance by Keneth Branagh… I love it. (Sunday Mirror, 10-Jan-2010, page 27)
David Stephenson, “This series is brilliantly shot, with splendid vistas of the Swedish countryside” – Sunday Express, 10-Jan-2010, page 60