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The Octopus (La Piovra) was a worldwide phenomenon, running for ten seasons from 1984 to 2001. This gritty Mafia thriller broke new ground as it explored wars between law enforcement and the global criminal network based in Sicily.
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A woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene and what looks like one ...
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A tanker ship crashes into the Øresund Bridge on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Onboard are five Swedish and Danish youths, chained below deck, unconscious. Investigating t...
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As Denmark's first female prime minister, Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen from HBO's Westworld) wants to bring progressive legislation to her country, but finds there's a hi...
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As Denmark's first female prime minister, Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen from HBO's Westworld) wants to bring progressive legislation to her country, but finds there's a h...
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As Denmark's first female prime minister, Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen from HBO's Westworld) wants to bring progressive legislation to her country, but finds there's a hig...
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As Denmark's first female prime minister, Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen from HBO's Westworld) wants to bring progressive legislation to her country, but finds there's a hig...
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Nicknamed “The Eagle” for his unerring intuition, detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson exudes competence and self-assurance but beneath the façade is a tormented personality. Pulled off...
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Nicknamed “The Eagle” for his unerring intuition, detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson exudes competence and self-assurance but beneath the façade is a tormented personality. Pulled off...
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Nicknamed “The Eagle” for his unerring intuition, detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson exudes competence and self-assurance but beneath the façade is a tormented personality. Pulled off...
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Winner of the 2002 International Emmy Award for Best Drama and inspired by actual police cases, the Danish crime drama Unit One reveals an unvarnished perspective on criminal casew...
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Winner of the 2002 International Emmy Award for Best Drama and inspired by actual police cases, the Danish crime drama Unit One reveals an unvarnished perspective on criminal casew...
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Winner of the 2002 International Emmy Award for Best Drama and inspired by actual police cases, the Danish crime drama Unit One reveals an unvarnished perspective on criminal casew...
The blockbuster French drama, A French Village (Un Village Francais), starring Audrey Fleurot and Thierry Godard (Spiral) chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France.
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The blockbuster French drama, A French Village (Un Village Francais), starring Audrey Fleurot and Thierry Godard (Spiral) chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France.
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The blockbuster French drama, A French Village (Un Village Francais), starring Audrey Fleurot and Thierry Godard (Spiral) chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France.
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The blockbuster French drama, A French Village (Un Village Francais), starring Audrey Fleurot and Thierry Godard (Spiral) chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France.
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The blockbuster French drama, A French Village (Un Village Francais), starring Audrey Fleurot and Thierry Godard (Spiral) chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France.
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This acclaimed drama is about the German occupation of France during World War II, and its effects on the inhabitants of a small village in Jura. In June 1940, the village of Villeneuve awakes to the arrival of the German army - and the next four years of occupation have a shattering effect on th...
He’s got no style, he’s got no flash and he’s squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away… for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing fig...
He’s got no style, he’s got no flash and he’s squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away… for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing fig...
He’s got no style, he’s got no flash and he’s squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away… for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing fig...
Sebastiano Somma plays Rocco Tasca, a hot-shot lawyer for a firm that’s made a fortune advancing the interests of corporate clients. He’s also a man in the process of losing his soul. When he looks into the eyes of a bereaved mother after winning an acquittal for the hit-and-run driver who killed...
Sebastiano Somma plays Rocco Tasca, a hot-shot lawyer for a firm that’s made a fortune advancing the interests of corporate clients. He’s also a man in the process of losing his soul. When he looks into the eyes of a bereaved mother after winning an acquittal for the hit-and-run driver who killed...
Heino Ferch (Downfall) stars as Viennese police psychologist Richard Brock.
Based on author Liza Marklund’s best-selling crime novels, Annika Bengtzon is a journalist and working mother of two struggling to keep her marriage alive. Fearless in her search for the truth, she won’t take no for an answer from anyone: not from prestigious academicians or drug dealers or from ...
Based on author Liza Marklund’s best-selling crime novels, Annika Bengtzon is a journalist and working mother of two struggling to raise her family. Fearless in her search for the truth, she won’t take no for an answer from anyone: not from prestigious academicians or drug dealers or from colleag...
A new section of law enforcement is set up to fight crime. Codename: Antigone 34
When veteran policewoman Captain Lea Hippolyte gets assigned to the case of a brutally-murdered female med student, it looks like it’ll be open and shut: the old story of college students’ excesses leading to traged...
Rough. Raw. Real. This is the world of Arne Dahl, whose crime novels have been transposed to the screen in adaptations that follow the dramatic tradition of all best-selling Scandinavian thrillers. The series revolves around cases taken on by the 'A Unit', an elite force of officers recruited aft...
Adapted from the best-selling crime novels by Graham Hurley, Blood on the Docks is the gritty French crime series about the war on the streets in the port city of Le Havre.
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Benjamin Lebel is a luminary in his field: a renowned wine expert who publishes a keenly-awaited new guide every year. When the local police chief enlists his help in the hunt for a serial killer who combines murders with Grand Crus, Benjamin’s intuition and his nose are stimulated by the puzzlin...
Benjamin Lebel is a luminary in his field: a renowned wine expert who publishes a keenly-awaited new guide every year. When the local police chief enlists his help in the hunt for a serial killer who combines murders with Grand Crus, Benjamin’s intuition and his nose are stimulated by the puzzlin...
Braquo is the internationally acclaimed, hard-hitting thriller about a squad of Paris cops who exist in the blurred boundaries at the edge of the law, using violence and intimidation to get the job done.
It’s the end of the line for rogue cops Caplan, Morlighem, Delgado and Vachewski in this second season of Braquo, the internationally acclaimed, hard-hitting crime thriller.
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Bukow is a veteran cop who doesn’t mind working at the edge of the law to get results. Konig has a sterling reputation as an analyst and profiler and is esteemed by all who know her for her assessments and concentrated professionalism. Despite, or perhaps because of their differences, they make a...
Born in Germany to Turkish parents, Cenk Batu is an undercover agent with the State Bureau of Investigation (LKA) in Hamburg. His ability to analyze people and situations is put to good use as he works on a wide variety of cases ranging from industrial espionage and financial crimes to terror cel...
The true story of how Cesare Mori ("The Iron Prefect") cleaned up the Sicilian Mafia is a little-known chapter of Italian history and spans the years from World War I to the rise of Fascism. In one night alone, he and his men arrested 300 delinquents and Mafia thugs who had taken control of the p...
In this intense hit drama The Churchmen, five young candidates for the priesthood arrive at Paris' Capuchin Seminary to begin their training. As they prepare to take their vows, each will see their commitment to the cross tested and whether they can withstand temptations from outside the seminary...
In this intense hit drama The Churchmen, five young candidates for the priesthood arrive at Paris' Capuchin Seminary to begin their training. As they prepare to take their vows, each will see their commitment to the cross tested and whether they can withstand temptations from outside the seminary...
The Churchmen, originally released in France as Ainsi soient-ils and winner of The Best Film at the International Catholic Film Festival is an intense drama about five young candidates for the priesthood who arrive at Paris' Capuchin Seminary to begin their training. As they prepare to take their...
Peter Stormare (Fargo, The Blacklist), Lena Olin (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Chocolat) and Mark Hamill (Star Wars) star in this four-part thriller based on the books by Jan Guillou. Swedish super-spy Carl Hamilton (Stormare) is tapped by the CIA to prevent a Russian nuclear warhead from b...
Gritty Irish-language drama chronicling the difficult professional and intense personal life of Cathal Mac Iarnáin, a tenacious TV crime reporter who is obsessed with pursuing the story behind the story. But as single-minded as he is about uncovering the truth, he is often too busy chasing storie...
Based on the classic crime novels by Maria Lang and featuring Ola Rapace from Skyfall and the Swedish series, Wallander, Crimes of Passion is a collection of stylish whodunnits set in postwar Sweden.
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Roche and Son is a quirky, family-run private eye agency.
Against the backdrop of Italy’s political upheaval, Fascism and chaos spanning the tumultuous ten-year period between 1938 and 1948, Detective De Luca does the one thing he knows best: be a cop.
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Trond Espen Seim (Varg Veum, The Legacy and The Thing) stars as Sverre Fjeld, a young police officer who's caught between the law and his own conscience. Sverre is fresh out of the police academy and about to get married to his longtime girlfriend. As he takes his first job in Olso, a chance meet...
What could be more perfect than coming home to marry your childhood sweetheart? Police officer Marie Kermeur returns to the beautiful craggy island of Ty Kern, off the coast of Brittany, to marry Christian, the man she grew up with on the island. But wedding planning turns into funeral preparatio...
When Senior Detective Lisa Milani requested a desk job in a small town outside of Rome, it was to allow her spend more time with family. But after she's called on to assist with a major case, her extreme competence causes her to end up in charge of an entire investigative squad in the big city.
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Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which feature the singular Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and...
Peter Haber (Beck) stars as Swedish super-spy Carl Hamilton in this eight-part series based on the novel by international best-selling author Jan Guillou.
A passion for solving difficult cases makes Franco Soneri the best investigator in Ferrara, Italy - but also its most difficult. He's brusque and irascible, but he and his team manage to uncover what others would like to keep hidden; addictions, pedophilia, secret loves, and even old injustices l...
Being a brilliant investigator is small comfort for Inspector Franco Soneri as he finds himself on the rebound from a tumultuous relationship with his Ukrainian girlfriend, Angela Cornelio. Transferring to Torino, he takes on fresh cases and begins building a new team, but nothing compares with t...
This is the real-life story of one of Sicilys bravest sons standing up to the Mafia, wielding the law to break the back of organized crime. Giovanni Falcone was the judge who unmasked the Mafia during the 1980s and 90s by methodically following the money. His discoveries exposed the vast hierarch...
The Godless is an exhilarating drama series. In each of its episodes the audience is confronted with crimes that are inspired by actual cases. The stories, set in the criminal world of young people, are told from the perspective of both offender and victim. The Godless doesn’t confirm preconcepti...
The Godless is an exhilarating drama series. In each of its episodes the audience is confronted with crimes that are inspired by actual cases. The stories, set in the criminal world of young people, are told from the perspective of both offender and victim. The Godless doesn’t confirm preconcepti...
A struggling musician tries his hand at blackmail after inadvertently filming a murder in this dark and quirky three-part miniseries based on the novel by Norwegian author Fredrik Skagen.
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Based on the internationally acclaimed and best-selling novel by Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother is an evocative family saga revolving around the life of un-produced screenwriter Barnum Nilsen. His family is laden with oddities and secrets, the darkest of which happened...
The Heavy Water War depicts one of the most exciting stories from the World War II - the Nazis efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies desperate struggle to prevent it from happening.
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A demented serial killer twists Dante’s poetry into pure evil in this blockbuster Italian crime drama from the writer of the seminal Mafia series The Octopus (La Piovra).
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Based on the international best-selling mystery novels by Mari Jungstedt, the blockbuster German crime series The Inspector and the Sea is set on the idyllic Swedish island of Gotland.
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Based on the international best-selling mystery novels by Mari Jungstedt, the blockbuster German crime series The Inspector and the Sea is set on the idyllic Swedish island of Gotland.
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The dazzling Guido Caprino stars as Inspector Luca Manara, a dreamy man and a supervisor's worst nightmare. He dismisses procedure and refuses to kowtow to local power players, but he's also without ego and a gifted investigator.
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The dazzling Guido Caprino stars as Inspector Luca Manara, a dreamy man and a supervisor's worst nightmare. He dismisses procedure and refuses to kowtow to local power players, but he's also without ego and a gifted investigator.
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Exiled from the Naples police department for being a whistleblower, Chief Inspector Mario Nardone finds himself transferred to postwar Milan, which is fast becoming the breeding ground for a new criminal scene.
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There's a new crime-fighter in town: Inspector Rex! After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced Inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna, with the help of their two-legged friend Stockinger. Richard uses his good lo...
Based on the best-selling crime fiction of Helene Tursten. Irene Huss is a former European ju-jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit. Her husband, Krister, is a successful chef, and luckily for Irene, he gladly shoulders a fair share...
Based on the best-selling crime fiction of Helene Tursten. Irene Huss is a former European ju-jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit. Her husband, Krister, is a successful chef, and luckily for Irene, he gladly shoulders a fair share...
After five years working for Europol in The Hague, Johan Falk (Jakob Eklund) returns to Gothenburg to work with the special operations group GSI - an elite unit within the Swedish police. Falk becomes the handler for a deep cover informant named Frank Wagner (Joel Kinnaman),and together they bat...
Jakob Eklund stars Johan Falk in the three hit feature films that introduced the character to audiences around the world. The Johan Falk Trilogy is a fast-paced, relentlessly-suspenseful thriller depicting a society under constant threat from a new kind of criminality, one which operates out of t...
Kabul, Afghanistan, 2005. George Bush is President of the United States, Jacques Chirac, President of France, and Jacky, master of his own little domain, "Kabul Kitchen." It's loud, it's boozy, it's free-spirited and it's the only place where the expats, journalists and miltiary big-wigs can enjo...
The Kaboul Kitchen is boozy and free-spirited, and it's the only place where ex-pats, journalists and military big-wigs can enjoy a swimming pool in the heart of the Afghan capital.
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Within two hours drive of Copenhagen, stands an incredible manor. It’s home to Veronika Grønnegaard, the powerful mother, and ground-breaking conceptual artist who has raised 5 chi...
International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon’s bestselling crime novels.
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Bruno Cremer brings Georges Simenon's Parisian Inspector Maigret to life.
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International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon’s bestselling crime novels.
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International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon’s bestselling crime novels.
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International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon’s bestselling crime novels.
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International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon’s bestselling crime novels.
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International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon’s bestselling crime novels.
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International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon’s bestselling crime novels.
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International film star Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this definitive series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon’s bestselling crime novels.
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Jon Øigarden (The Half Brother) stars in this gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines conspiracy thriller. Uncompromising reporter Peter Verås uncovers evidence of massive financial fraud involving Norway’s political and financial elite – evidence which then sparks his own brother’s suicide. Bewilder...
After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern moves to the picturesque Swedish island Gotland with her two children to start over. While struggling with raising two children as a single mother and still mourning her husband’s death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective an...
Inspector Marie Brand looks like she could be anyone's friendly aunt, but her nondescript looks belie phenomenal mental abilities. Her thinking is out-of-the-box scary: she sees physical inconsistencies at the crime scene immediately, she's constantly collecting details about everything and she a...
Swedish kidnapping drama in eight parts. Mikael Persbrandt (Beck, Hamilton) stars as Martin Holst, the work-obsessed CEO of a pharmaceutical company. When his son is abducted and used as a pawn against him, Martin loses control not only over his family and his company, but his whole life.
During a 24-hour period, the lives of diverse characters from a cross-section of Parisian society intersect each other. Among them: government officials, middle-class workers, a thief and a transgender singer. They're all interconnected whether they know it or not. By the end of the 24 hours the ...
P.I. Vares' laid-back nonchalance belies his determination to solve each case.
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In a private Brussels bank, 66 safe-deposit boxes are burglarized. The owner of the bank wants to keep the heist under wraps, but police inspector Paul Gerardi catches wind of the ...
Every criminal has his own handwriting, but only Sebastian Bergman can read it.
Bergman is Sweden’s most famous criminal profiler, having written a definitive, best-selling book about workings of the criminal mind. He’s played by Swedish actor Rolf Lassgård, famous for his performance as the or...
Originally released in France as Engrenages, the hard hitting Parisian cop thriller Spiral became a blockbuster sensation across all of Europe and Australia, winning awards and commendations from TV France, The Royal Television Society in the UK, and from The Academy of Television Arts and Scienc...
Originally released in France as Engrenages, the hard-hitting Parisian cop thriller Spiral became a blockbuster sensation across all of Europe and Australia, winning awards and commendations.
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If you think Detective Montalbano's hometown of Vigata can get a little nutty sometimes, you should see it in 1890! Based on the historical mystery novel by Andrea Camilleri, The Vanishing of Patò is set in the same seaside town that Detective Montalbano fans know and love.
At the beginning of the third season of this gritty French police thriller, the mutilated body of a young woman is found on an abandoned railway
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Stefan Sauk stars as Swedish super-spy Carl Hamilton in this six-part adaptation of the novel by Jan Guillou. Two Swedish businessmen are kidnapped by the Mafia in Rome and Hamilton is sent to Sicily to negotiate for their release.
Originally released in France as Engrenages, the hard-hitting Parisian cop thriller Spiral became a blockbuster sensation across all of Europe and Australia, winning awards and commendations from TV France, The Royal Television Society in the UK, and from The Academy of Television Arts and Scienc...
Winner of the 2015 International Emmy® for best Drama Series (Season 5), Spiral is about the men and women who work at the heart of the French judicial system. This Parisian cop thriller is about the lawyers, judges, prosecutors and detectives who cross paths on cases that reveal the dregs of hum...
Krister Henriksson returns in a stunning performance as Detective Kurt Wallander from the best-selling crime series by Swedish author Henning Mankell. Wallander is Ystad's veteran detective who's finally learned to find respite from the job in the moments of grace that come from living on the bea...
From international best-selling authors Henning Mankell (Wallander) and Jan Guillou (Hamilton, Enemy's Enemy) comes this quirky eight-part drama. Ex-cop Wallton is hired to find an ancient, mystic Arabian talisman – a necklace which carries a deadly curse. The talisman is said to bring terminal b...
Four-part thriller about a torpedo (enforcer) who has his life turned upside down one night when he comes home to find his wife dead. She was killed with her husband’s gun, making him the prime suspect, and leaving him with the responsibility of caring for their five-year-old daughter as he embar...
Krister Henriksson returns in a stunning performance as Detective Kurt Wallander from the best-selling crime series by Swedish author Henning Mankell. Wallander is Ystad's veteran detective who's finally learned to find respite from the job in the moments of grace that come from living on the bea...
Before Detective Salvo Montalbano became the seasoned and mature chief detective we already know, he was just Salvo, new to Vigata and new to being a police chief. He didn’t always live in that glorious house by the sea, or have Deputy Chief Mimi Augello as a best friend, or Fazio as a loyal assi...
Before Detective Salvo Montalbano became the seasoned and mature chief detective we already know, he was just Salvo, new to Vigata and new to being a police chief. He didn’t always live in that glorious house by the sea, or have Deputy Chief Mimi Augello as a best friend, or Fazio as a loyal assi...
Before anyone else played the part, Rolf Lassgård established the role of Kurt Wallander in the original Swedish film adaptations of Henning Mankell's bestselling crime novels. With his ragged, very human portrayal of the world-weary detective, Lassgård set the standard for all other actors who w...
