Monday, May 28, 2012

Henning Mankell's Wallander Series Two, New on DVD

Henning Mankell's Wallander (2009)

The second series of the Swedish-language crime drama Wallander is released on DVD tomorrow, Tuesday May 29th, 2012. The 13 feature film length episodes were originally broadcast on Sweden's TV4 through 2009 and the first six months of 2010. (It aired in the UK during the summer of 2011 though to our knowledge none of these episodes have previously aired in the US.)

Krister Henriksson reprises his role as Inspector Kurt Wallander, based on a character created by crime novelist Henning Mankell.

As series opens, Wallander is growing increasingly disillusioned with his work, often wondering whether he should have become a police officer at all. Still living with the fallout and memories of some of his past actions, coupled with a failing state of health, Wallander hopes to put himself at ease in a new home by the sea. But any thought of peace and quiet is quickly shattered when he is pulled into a murder investigation...and then another … until he comes to understand that applying his brilliant detective's mind in the pursuit of truth and justice is indeed his destiny.

Wallander is in Swedish with English subtitles. Watch a promo for the series below.

This television series of original stories should not be confused with the nine Swedish-language theatrical film adaptations of the novels by Mankell — Rolf Lassgård played the character in these — nor the English-language versions produced by BBC starring Kenneth Branagh as Wallander.

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