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Wallanders brilliant use of cinematography helps the audience understand the actors emotions and the pure devastation that comes from the murders of the victims and the effects it has on Kurt Wallander himself. Set in Ystad, Sweden these incredible British actors have recreated the believable and hauntingly series written by Henning Mankell.
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Wallander is a British TV Show adapted from Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Inspector Kurt Wallander novels. Boxed set includes complete season 1 to 3 (6 discs) – over 15 hours of content.
Kenneth Branagh (BAFTA award winner 2009) stars as Swedish Inspector Kurt Wallander. In nine feature length dramas based on Henning Mankells best-selling novels our increasingly disillusioned detective struggles against a rising tide of angst and violence in the deceptively peaceful town of Ystad, Southern Sweden.
Featuring:
Sidetracked
Firewall
One Step Behind
Faceless Killers
The Man Who Smiled
The 5th Woman
An Event in Autumn
The Dogs of Riga
Before the Frost
Awards
Wallander Season 1 Review
“The character of Kurt Wallander has captured readers' imaginations for nearly two decades and made creator and author of his stories Henning Mankell a Swedish national treasure. The BBC have now taken a trio of the detective's most worshipped mysteries and made each into an 88 minute feature, with Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie) taking the role of the hard working and brooding cop…should enrapture Mankell aficionados and newbies alike.”
..The key reason for the success of these three efforts is the sublime performance courtesy of Kenneth Branagh, who brings a gravitas and realism to every part he takes. As Wallander he is thoroughly engaging and believable on both a personal and professional level, allowing genuine emotional insight into the conflicted perspectives that must inhabit the minds of those who uphold the law. In Mankell's writing, nothing adheres to the superficial and glossy nature that ensnares most modern day thrillers or contemporary heroes, Branagh and the creative teams understanding this beautifully. Wallander is a hardboiled detective and his world is harsh, no-nonsense reality; these adaptations have no trouble in keeping that tone throughout..
In each, the twist is well hidden and the culprit completely elusive until at the earliest the last 15 minutes. My personal favorite was Firewall. It hits the perfect note between delicious mystery and character examination, really drawing out the central figure whilst allowing him to investigate a seemingly impossible crime. The final moments of this installment are maybe a little more predictable than the other two but what proceeds it is pure gold. It's dark, twisted and utterly compulsive viewing.
The other features are also highly entertaining and memorable, working to build up Kurt Wallander and always allowing for an emotional pay off at the end of each mystery. These are not just crime noirs in search of superb twists and unforeseen turns but also in uncovering and exploring the possibility of the everyman being thrown headfirst into these brutal and rock hard scenarios. The focus is always on Kurt Wallander as a person and whilst he appears inherently resourceful, thanks to Branagh's beautifully grounded work, you always feel that he's a very real and often disillusioned entity. The supporting cast are solid especially Jeany Spark (Tess of the D'Urbervilles) as Wallander's bubbly and understanding daughter who spends her time trying to give her overburdened father something more than just work to live for. She along with Wallander's crack team of dedicated assistants are the only real reoccurring characters in the series, the rest left to individual mysteries and investigations. However even in those smaller roles actors acquit themselves well and keep the general quality of the production high.
This DVD set looks terrific and really exploits the wonderfully raw cinematography the series has on offer, a beautiful portrait of Sweden and full of some majestically simple yet effective shot making…
This is great stuff…one only hopes the BBC turn out a few more of these high-quality adventures." DVD Verdict
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