![]() Anders from the military's death in The Revenge is very sad.She may have manipulated Wallander throughout the movie for her cause, but when she dies she hints that she genuinely liked him despite everything and tells him to take care. ![]() He's also a vicious military mercenary who will kill anyone who comes in his way. Solomon from Firewall is affable to the people who work with him.Besides, the only reason he's the villain anyway is that his daughter committed suicide. While he's a murderous kidnapper and torturer who mentally breaks everyone, he seems to be a genuinely good to the people he likes and isn't assholes. An interesting case with the same character in the Lassgård films: Wallander's father is still named Henning (as in the novels) in his first appearances in Faceless Killers, The Dogs of Riga, and The White Lioness (as played by Ernst Günther), but when he turns up again in The Fifth Woman (as played by Keve Hjelm), his name is briefly mentioned to be "Karl.".Adaptation Name Change: Wallander's father - named Henning in the novels - is named Povel in the BBC series.Stina Ekblad, who plays Karin, is a Swedish-speaking Finn. Actor Allusion: In one of the Swedish episodes, Wallander is talking to the coroner Karin Linder about the possibility that the victim may have drunk himself to death, and gives her a sly look as he refers to death by alcohol poisoning as "Finnish suicide".Wallander's colleague Ann-Britt Höglund.Wallander's daughter Linda, who chooses to join the police like her father.In 2020, Netflix released Young Wallander, a prequel of Wallander on what happens to him after he graduates from the Swedish National Police Academy and is in on the first few days of job as a uniformed officer. Filmed in Ystad, the Swedish setting of the novels, it renders all spoken dialogue into English (complete with idioms like "done time"), but keeps all on-screen written text in Swedish (with the exception of the screen of Wallander's phone on occasions). The English adaptation is unusual in its use of Translation Convention. The novels became the basis of several film and TV adaptations: a Swedish televised film series for SVT starring Rolf Lassgård as the titular character, a Swedish television series for TV4 starring Krister Henriksson, and most recently an English-language adaptation starring Kenneth Branagh. In the novels Mankell explores social and political issues affecting modern-day Sweden, as well as providing the reader with plenty of mystery and suspense. Swedish author Henning Mankell's Nordic Noir series of crime novels follow Kurt Wallander, a middle-aged, diabetic inspector who is often up against both criminals and his own demons.
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