Anno 1790, a Swedish Historical Crime Drama, New This Week on DVD

Earlier today we posted about three crime series being released this week on DVD. But we missed one, the Swedish historical crime drama Anno 1790. (It's not even included yet on our Telemystery site, something we'll take care of later today!)

We first heard of Anno 1790 last August, when the Swedish television network SVT announced its Fall 2011 line-up. Ten episodes aired and are included in this new DVD set. (We don't believe SVT has made a decision yet on a second season.)

It is the Age of Enlightenment, the year 1790. After returning from the battlefields of a bloody war in Finland, Swedish army surgeon Johan Gustav Dåådh (Peter Eggers) finds himself reluctantly taking on the job as district police commissioner in Stockholm. Unenthusiastic about police work, he still brings tenacity and dispassionate reasoning to the job, with an eye to ensuring that criminals are caught and the innocent remain free. His methods may not be modern but they work, and the motives for the crimes remain unchanged from today: revenge, greed, love, jealousy and politics. Beneath the calm exterior, Dåådh is as conflicted as the times he lives in; he's a closeted revolutionary torn between his loyalty to the King and his progressive ideals. He also struggles with forbidden love for his boss wife Magdalena (Linda Zilliacus), who shares his vision for a just and free society.

The episodes are in Swedish with English subtitles. We've embedded a trailer for the DVD set of Anno 1790 below: