28 Scandinavian Detectives with an Unexpected Ending

“Scandinavian noir has recently become a phenomenon that has only grown in popularity over the years. Grim, sometimes downright gruesome stories about characters with complicated personalities, forced to dig into other people’s lives in order to restore justice, are enchanting in their beauty.

And all this against the background of fantastically beautiful landscapes and breathtaking nature. For true connoisseurs of depressing dramas and twisted plots we have prepared the best selection of Scandinavian detectives.

Kvinden i buret (film series)

• IMDB Rating – 7.2
• Genre: Detective, crime, thriller
• Production: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway / 2013
• Budget: €5,000,000
• World Box Office: $13,656,380
• Director: Mikkel Nørgård
• Starring: Nicolai Li Kaas, Fares Fares, Per Scheel Kruger, Troels Lübü, Øyvind B. Fabricius Holm, Søren Pilmark, Divya Das, Anna Berskog Hauger, Sonja Richter, Rasmus Bothoft

Arriving on assignment before his colleagues, police detective Karl Merck decides to conduct the operation himself without waiting for reinforcements. A rash decision results in an accident.

Karl is injured and when he leaves the hospital he finds out that he has been transferred to the special “Division Q”, which deals with unsolved cases. Together with his partner Assad he investigates crimes that have been gathering dust on the shelves for years.

Several parts of the Scandinavian detectives Mysterium are based on a series of novels of the same name by the Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

• IMDB Rating – 7.8
• Genre: thriller, drama, crime, detective
• Production: USA, Sweden, Norway / 2011
• Budget: $90,000,000
• World Box Office: $232,617,430
• Director: David Fincher
• Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Jorik van Wageningen, Joely Richardson, Geraldine James, Goran Vishnich

Aging tycoon Henrik Wagner has been puzzled by the mysterious disappearance of his niece Harriet for forty years. The only thing he is sure of is that someone in his close-knit and dysfunctional family is involved in the girl’s disappearance.

To investigate, Wagner hires a famous journalist and an informal person named Lisbeth Salander, who has incredible hacking abilities.

A film adaptation of Stieg Larson’s work of the same name.

The original Swedish title of the film translates as “Men Who Hate Women”.

Hodejegerne

• IMDB Rating – 7.5
• Genre: thriller, action, crime
• Production: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany / 2011
• Budget: NOK 30,300,000
• World Box Office: $18,962,444
• Director: Morten Tyldum
• Starring: Axel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Makodi Lund, Øyvind Sander, Julia Holgaard, Carré Hagen Sidness, Valentina Alexeeva, Reidar Sørensen, Niels Jørgen Kaalstad, Joachim Rafaelsen

Roger Brown is an indispensable recruiter for some of Norway’s biggest firms, who has led a double life for several years. On the one hand, Roger is a brilliant employee and a law-abiding citizen, on the other hand, he is a thief of expensive paintings for his much adored wife, who used his money to open an art gallery.

One day the hero meets Klass Graaf, an ideal candidate for a top management position, who also owns one of Rubens’s paintings. The “bounty hunter” gets involved in a dangerous game, in the course of which he himself becomes a prey.

Dronningen

• IMDB Rating – 7.1
• Genre: thriller, melodrama
• Production: Denmark, Sweden / 2019
• Worldwide box office: $437,005
• Director: Mai el-Touki
• Starring: Trine Durholm, Gustav Lind, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmore Dannemann, Silja Esmore Dannemann, Stine Guldenkerne, Preben Christensen, Frederikke Dal Hansen, Ella Solgor, Carla Filip Röder

Anna is a successful lawyer who specializes in juvenile cases. She is married to a respected doctor, Peter, and is raising twin girls. One day Gustav, a troubled teenager, her husband’s son from his first marriage, moves in and stays for an indefinite period of time.

There is a sympathy between the already elderly Anna and Gustav, which very quickly develops into a forbidden passion. The temptation takes the characters so far that it is impossible to turn back.

Den skyldige

• IMDB Rating – 7.5
• Genre: thriller, drama, crime
• Production: Denmark / 2017
• Worldwide box office: $4,598,051
• Director: Gustav Moeller
• Starring: Jakob Södergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Katinka Evers-Jansen, Jeanette Lindböck, Simon Bennebjörg, Laura Brault, Morten Suurballe

Asger Holm, a former police officer on suspension, works as an emergency dispatcher. Shortly before the end of his shift, Asger receives a call from a woman named Iben, who has been kidnapped and is being taken by car to an unknown destination.

He soon manages to find out that Iben has two young children who are currently at home without anyone to look after them. Having taken the situation to his heart Asger decides to help the kidnapped woman by all means.

The hero enters into a race against time, as the chances of saving the unfortunate woman are getting smaller by the minute.

En chance til

• IMDB Rating – 6.8
• Genre: thriller, drama
• Production: Denmark, Sweden / 2014
• Budget: DKK 35,000,000
• World Box Office: $12,468,099
• Director: Susanne Bier
• Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nikolaj Li Kaas, Thomas Bo Larsen, Roland Möller, Ulrich Thomsen, Maria Bonnevi, Peter Haber, Eva Fröhling, Bodil Jörgenson, Charlotte Fich

Police detectives Andreas and Simon arrive on a call to a family of drug addicts to deal with domestic violence. In their cluttered house, which looks more like a brothel, they find a screaming infant.

Andreas, who had just recently experienced the death of his own child, decides to steal the baby and raise him as his own. However, the hero’s action soon has unforeseen consequences, which radically change the hero’s fate.

The Perfect Patient

• IMDB Rating – 6.8
• Genre: thriller, drama, crime
• Production: Sweden, Belgium / 2019
• Worldwide box office: $156,168
• Director: Mikael Hofström
• Starring: Jonas Karlsson, David Densik, Alba August, Susanne Reuter, Linda Ulvaeus, Christopher Vagelin, Tova Magnusson-Norling, Dag Malmberg, Magnus Roosmann, Björn Bengtsson

Brutal maniac Thomas Quick, with dozens of innocent victims across the country under his belt, surrendered to justice and was sentenced to a married confinement in a psychiatric hospital in Sweden.

In the many years of his crimes, there is not a single witness or piece of evidence that points to his involvement in the murders. Journalist Hannes Rostam, who doubts the legal validity of Quick’s case, begins his own investigation.

“The Perfect Patient” is also worthy of a selection of the best films about maniacs and serial killers

The Scandinavian detective story is based on a book by writer and journalist Hannes Rastome, based on the biography of the famous serial killer Sture Bergvoll. After a long trial in which not a single piece of evidence was revealed, the alleged murderer was found not guilty.

Now It’s Dark

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Drama, Detective
• Production: Norway / 2018
• Budget: NOK 8 025 000
• Director: Aril Austin Ommundsen
• Starring: Kristoffer Joner, Niels Jørgen Kaalstad, Pia Tjelta, Vegar Hul, Alexandra Jerpen, Ole Kristoffer Ertvåg, Thomas Alf Larsen, Per Kjerstad Andersen, Thomas Aske Berg

After a serious family quarrel, Lena decides to reconcile with her husband and goes in search of him. But the meeting does not bring relief: the girl finds him in bed with a new mistress. Everything is like in the best movie about adultery.

At a loss, Lena begins to wander around the city at night, meeting passersby, listening to their stories and going into other people’s homes.

Sometimes the heroine herself becomes a party to some strange and sometimes very creepy stories. In the whirlpool of events Lena is trying to figure out who she really is and what happened to her.

Gräns

• IMDB Rating – 7.0
• Genre: Detective, fantasy, melodrama, crime
• Production: Sweden, Denmark / 2018
• World Box Office: $2,177,678
• Director: Ali Abbasi
• Starring: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jørgen Thorsson, Ann Petren, Sten Ljunggren, Kjell Wilhelmsen, Raquel Warmlander, Andreas Kundler, Matti Bousted, Thomas Onstrand

Tina has an incredible gift for identifying people who are hiding something. She demonstrates her talents when she works for the Swedish customs, detecting the illegal cargo of smugglers.

One day, Tina stops a suspicious man trying to cross the border. Surprisingly, the stranger’s mind and feelings are closed to her. This encounter turns Tina’s world upside down and makes her realize that she is at the edge of worlds.

The Scandinavians know how to make good superpower movies, too.

The film adaptation of the Swedish writer Juhn Aivide Lindqvist’s work of the same name.

At the 2018 Cannes Film Festival the film won the “Un Certain Regard” award.

Tunnelen

• IMDB Rating – 6.1
• Genre: thriller, drama
• Production: Norway / 2019
• Worldwide box office: $2,964,640
• Director: Paul Oye
• Starring: Thorbjørn Harr, Ylva Fyglegud, Lisa Carlehead, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Peter Forde, Daniel Alexander Skadal, Per Egil Aske, Tor Christian Blakely, Jan Gunnar Røyse, William Osknevad

On Christmas Eve, Elisa takes a shuttle bus to another town to visit her grandmother. As she drives into a nine-kilometer tunnel, she is involved in a terrible accident: A gas truck explodes and fills the entire space with dangerous smoke.

Thousands of people are held hostage by the terrible disaster. At the same time, a massive snowstorm gathers momentum in the cold Norwegian mountains. It is difficult for rescue workers to get through – the survivors can only rely on their own strength.

Mýrin

• IMDB Rating – 6.9
• Genre: thriller, drama, crime, detective
• Production: Iceland, Germany, Denmark / 2006
• Budget: ISK 180,000,000
• Director: Balthasar Kormakur
• Starring: Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Augusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Bjøndn Hlinur Haraldsson, Oulavia Hrödn Joonsdottir, Etli Rafn Sigurdsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Torstein Gunnarsson, Theodor Juliusson, Torunn Magnusdottir, Gvydmunda Eliasdottir

Five-year-old Cola dies of a genetic brain mutation. Shortly thereafter, the police discover in the basement of a house the body of an elderly man with signs of violent death, who suffered from the same disease as Cola.

During the investigation Inspector Erlendur finds in the house of the murdered man a photograph of the grave of a girl who died thirteen years ago. The details of that terrible crime remain unclear. The officer of the law has to find out which thread connects all the events that took place.

Skjelvet

• IMDB Rating – 6.2
• Genre: Action, thriller, drama
• Production: Norway / 2018
• Budget: NOK 52,100,000
• Production worldwide: $13,837,294
• Director: Jon Andreas Andersen
• Starring: Stig R. Amdam, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Thorpe, Edith Hogenrood-Sand, Kathrine Torborg Johansen, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Per Frisch, Runar Døving

Three years have passed since experienced geologist Christian Aikord had to survive a massive tsunami and save many people, including his family.

But a geological survey reveals that the Norwegian capital is in for a new natural disaster: the city is hit by mild tremors every day, which could be a precursor to a major earthquake. Christian will have to fight with the dangerous and destructive elements once again.

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“The Fault” is the sequel to “The Wave,” which was released in 2015.

The Nile Hilton Incident

• IMDB Rating – 6.8
• Genre: thriller, drama, crime, detective
• Production: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, France / 2017
• Budget: $4 250 000
• Worldwide box office: $81,089
• Director: Tariq Saleh
• Starring: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Slimane Dazi, Hania Amar, Isham Yacoubi, Ger Dooney, Rebecca Simonsson

The plot of this Swedish detective film centers on the murder of the famous singer Lalina, which took place in a Cairo hotel room at the Neil Hilton in January 2011. Corrupt police inspector Noureddine Mostafa, who is assigned to handle the case, very quickly identifies an influential businessman as a suspect.

Salwa, a Sudanese maid, becomes the only witness who sees the man leaving the room. The Prosecutor General, wishing to quickly close the case, classifies it as suicide, but Noureddine wants to get to the bottom of the truth.

Bølgen

• IMDB Rating – 6.7
• Genre: thriller, drama
• Production: Norway, Sweden / 2015
• Budget: NOK 50,000,000
• Worldwide box office: $12,975,143
• Director: Roar Uthaug
• Starring: Christoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Thorpe, Jonas Hoff Ofthebro, Edith Hogenrood-Sand, Frithjof Soheim, Laila Goody, Arthur Berning, Herman Bernhoft, Ellie Harboa, Silje Breivik

Geologist Christian Akroyd lives with his wife and two children in the picturesque Norwegian countryside on a fjord. One night, an alarm goes off over the sleeping town.

What the seismologists predicted begins to come true: because of a powerful tectonic shift, a deadly tsunami is headed for the settlement, destroying everything in its path. The hero finds himself in the very epicenter of a terrible natural disaster.

In the course of studies, experts have concluded that the mountain referred to in the film may indeed collapse, and possibly – in the very near future.

Tyskungen

• IMDB Rating – 6.0
• Genre: Detective, Criminal
• Production: Sweden, Germany / 2013
• World Box Office: $515,997
• Director: Per Hanefjord
• Starring: Claudia Galli, Richard Ulfzäter, Eva Frithjofson, Pamela Cortes Bruna, Lennart Jakel, Amalia Holm, Fanny Klefelt, Edwin Endre, Axel Mürberg, Kim Solfeldt

The picturesque little town of Fjellbacka on Sweden’s west coast looks like a tourist postcard come to life. It is the home of the parents of the famous detective writer Erika, who decides to enjoy a quiet, measured life and moves there with her family.

But the quiet provincial place keeps many secrets and mysteries. One day the residents of Fellbacka are shaken by the news of a brutal murder.

A screen adaptation of the detective novel by Swedish writer Camilla Lackberg.

Call Girl

• IMDB Rating – 6.5
• Genre: thriller, drama
• Production: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland / 2012
• Budget: €4.5 million
• Director: Mikael Marsimhain
• Starring: Sofia Karemir, Simon J. Berger, Josefin Asplund, Pernilla August, Anders Beckman, Sven Nordin, David Densik, Hannah Ullerstam, Sverrir Gudnason, Maria Alm Norell

The thriller is based on a true story set in Sweden in the 1970s. An influential politician Lennart Geir becomes involved in a major political scandal.

In the press comes the information that the Minister of Justice is a client of one of Stockholm’s brothels. Geir hires a team of lawyers to save his reputation and keep his high-paying job.

The film tells the story of events that took place in 1977 – about a brothel supplying underage girls to powerful politicians.

Idealisten

• IMDB Rating – 6.9
• Genre: Thriller
• Production: Denmark, USA / 2015
• Director: Christina Rosendaal
• Starring: Peter Plaugborg, Søren Malling, Arly Jouver, Thomas Bo Larsen, Nikolai Söderholm, Henrik Birk, Jesper Hildegaard, Klaus Bühe, Kristoffer Fabritius

Young journalist Paul Brink learns from a former employee of an American airbase that his colleagues are gradually dying of unknown diseases. Paul begins his own investigation, which reveals to him the unpleasant details of twenty years ago.

It was at that time that a bomber carrying hydrogen bombs crashed near the military base. Danish workers were cleaning the area, who, as it turned out, subsequently felt a sharp deterioration in health. When a journalist decides to inform the Danish government about the casualties, he runs into a wall of silence.

Over kanten

• IMDB Rating – 4.8
• Genre: thriller, drama
• Production: Denmark / 2012
• Budget: DKK 14 000 000
• Director: Laurits Munk-Petersen, Jakob Ditlev
• Starring: Jonathan Spang, Christian Schamburg-Müller, Alexander Villaume, Danica Churcic, Anne Louise Hassing, Anders Hove, Troels Lübü, Søren Hauch-Fausböll, Petrine Agger, Johannes Nymark

A young couple decides to buy a house on the island of Mön, located in the Baltic Sea. But the happy day of purchase turns into an accident: An unknown man falls off the cliff of Mons Klint.

After a short time, the new owners of the house find out that their perfectly normal-looking house needs an overhaul. In the evening, a certain craftsman shows up on their doorstep, offering to fix everything they need in the shortest possible time and at a very low cost.

Nobels testamente

• IMDB Rating – 5.9
• Genre: thriller, drama, crime, detective
• Production: Sweden / 2011
• Russian box office: $26,000
• Director: Peter Flint
• Starring: Malin Krepin, Björn Cjellmann, Leif Andre, Kajsa Ernst, Erik Johansson, Felix Engström, Richard Ulfzäter, Antje Traue, Per Graffman, Björn Granat

Anika Bengtston is a talented crime reporter, a person of high moral principles, a fighter for freedom and justice. One evening she becomes one of the invited guests at the Nobel Prize ceremony.

Unexpectedly, during dinner, Anika accidentally witnesses the murder of an influential politician. The uniformed men forbid the reporter to divulge any details of the case. Unable to resist her calling, she begins her own investigation, which ultimately leads her to a shocking clue.

ID:A

• IMDB Rating – 6.1
• Genre: Thriller
• Production: Denmark / 2011
• Director: Christian E. Christiansen
• Starring: Tuva Novotny Flemming Enevold, Carsten Bjornlunn, Arno Binar, John Buijsmann, Rogier Filipoom, Jens Jorn Spottag, Marie Louise Ville, Françoise Lebrun, Koen Wouters

The protagonist of a Scandinavian detective movie wakes up under very mysterious circumstances. She lies by the river, with a bag full of money and a gun next to her, and a fresh scar on her stomach.

The girl has absolutely no memory of how she got there and what happened to her. Soon she discovers that someone is following her. Discovering that she possesses a Danish accent, she goes to Denmark to find answers. But the more the heroine learns about her past, the more she realizes that her life is not as simple as it might have seemed.

22 July

• IMDB Rating – 6.8
• Genre: thriller, drama, crime, history
• Production: Norway, Iceland, USA / 2018
• Budget: $20 000 000
• Director: Paul Greengrass
• Starring: Maria Bock, Anders Danielsen Lieu, Seda Witt, Ola J. Furuseth, Jonas Strandt Gravely, Jon Eigarden, Thorbjørn Harr, Isak Buckley Aglen, Marit Andreassen, Øystein Martinsen

A chronology of one of the worst and bloodiest terrorist attacks in Norway. Radical nationalist Anders Breivik detonated a bomb in a government quarter of the capital and hours later, disguised as a police officer, infiltrated the Utøya youth camp and shot 77 people to death.

The film tells the story from three angles–the innocent victims who suffered from the attack; the officials who found themselves helpless in a dire situation; and the lawyers who worked on the terrorist’s case in court.

The picture is based on the book by Norwegian journalist and writer Osne Seierstad.

Kapringen

• IMDB Rating – 7.2
• Genre: thriller, drama
• Production: Denmark / 2012
• Budget: DKK 15,500,000
• US production: $414,437
• Director: Tobias Lindholm
• Starring: Pilu Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Moeller, Gary Skjolmose Porter, Abdihakin Asgar, Amalia Ihl Alstrup, Amalia Wolff Andersen, Linda Leursen, Keith Pearson

Sea pirates seize a Danish merchant ship bound for Mumbai in the Indian Ocean and demand a multimillion-dollar ransom. The armed men hold seven crew members hostage, worsening their conditions by the day.

At the same time, a representative of the shipowner’s company tries to mitigate the conflict with the alarmed families of the sailors, to negotiate with the pirates and to please his superiors at the same time.

The script is based on real events that took place in 2007 on a ship belonging to a Kenyan company.

Underverden

• IMDB Rating – 6.6
• Genre: Action, thriller, drama, crime
• Production: Denmark / 2017
• World Box Office: $20,827
• Director: Fenar Ahmad
• Starring: Dar Salim, Stine Fischer Christensen, Ali Sivandi, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Jakob Ulrik Lohmann, Roland Moeller

The talented doctor Said was born in Iraq, but assimilated perfectly in Denmark and became part of European society. When he refuses to pay the debts of his younger brother, a vagrant and drug addict, he is soon found beaten to death.

Seeing no proper involvement from the local police, Said decides to go in search of the culprits himself. The investigation will show the hero the true face of the city, and force him to embark on the bloody road of revenge.

W. – Witse de film

• IMDB Rating – 6.1
• Genre: Crime, Detective, Thriller
• Production: Belgium / 2014
• Director: Frank van Meschlen
• Starring: Hubert Damen, Mathijs Schepers, Wim Opbrauk, Kateleine Verbeke, Lucas Van den Eynde, Ruth Beckmans, Isabelle van Heke, Robbie Kleiren

One day retired police detective Witze is approached by her own sister, whom they have not seen in thirty years. The woman is driven to this meeting by the murder of her daughter under unclear circumstances.

Witze agrees to help his sister in catching the culprit and begins to investigate. The more details he finds out, the closer he gets to the serial maniac, who acts on the principle “The way to a woman’s heart is through pain”.

Thelma

• IMDB Rating – 7.0
• Genre: horror, sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, drama, melodrama, detective
• Production: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden / 2017
• Budget: NOK 47,500,000
• World Box Office: $1,463,727
• Director: Joakim Trier
• Starring: Ellie Harboa, Kaja Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Greta Eltervag, Marte Magnusdottir Solem, Anders Mossling, Vanessa Borgli, Steinar Clowman Hallert, Ingrid Gjaver

Young Thelma becomes a freshman at a college in Oslo. For the first time without parents, who raised their daughter according to the strict precepts of Christianity, the girl begins a free life as a student. Teenage temptations associated with bad habits do not interest her much, but something still captures her attention.

The heroine develops romantic feelings for her classmate Anna. She accepts Thelma into her company and the girls begin a friendship. She is extremely embarrassed by her sympathy for Anna, and on top of that, she has seizures that are very similar to epileptic seizures.

Insomnia

• IMDB Rating – 7.3
• Genre: thriller, crime, detective
• Production: Norway / 1997
• U.S. box office: $227,569
• Director: Erik Sjöldbjerg
• Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Maria Mathiesen, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Gisken Armand, Christian Figenshaw Jr., Thor Michael Omodt, Frode Rasmussen, Bjorn Moan, Maria Bonnevi, Marianne O. Ulriksen

The Scandinavian detective film centers on two police inspectors who arrive in a small Norwegian town to help their colleagues investigate the murder of a young girl. At the scene of the crime, the lawmen find the only clue that allows them to ambush the perpetrator.

During the operation, detective Jonas Engström accidentally kills his partner because of a fatal mistake, while the criminal, who witnessed the event, manages to escape.

Kandidaten

• IMDB Rating – 6.2
• Genre: thriller
• Production: Denmark / 2008
• Director: Casper Barfoed
• Starring: Nikolai Lee Kaas, Ulf Pilgaard, Laura Christensen, Tuva Novotny, David Densik, Kim Bodnia, Henning Jensen, Jesper Langberg, Birgitta Jort Sørensen, Henning Valin Jacobsen

Lawyer Jonas Bechmann is going through a difficult time. A year ago, his father was killed in a car accident. Although it all looked like an accident, Jonas is convinced that his death was staged.

Always a man of the system, he completely changes his position when he himself is accused of murder. Along with this, a group of unknown criminals begins to blackmail the hero, threatening to turn him in to the police unless he pays them a hefty sum of six zeros.

Bedrag

• IMDB Rating – 7.6
• Genre: thriller, drama, crime
• Production: Denmark / 2015
• Director: Søren Balle, Jannik Johansen, Mas Kamp Tulstrup
• Starring: Thomas Bo Larsen, Nathalie Mandueño, Esben Smed, Nikolai Lee Kaas, Thomas Hvan H. Andersen, Maria Rich, Line Kruse, Julie Grundtvig, Lukas Hansen, Claes Jungmark

Not far from Denmark’s largest power plant, the body of an unidentified man is found. To investigate the case is sent Mads Yusiessen, known for his dark past, which he does not want to tell his colleagues. After examining the scene, the detective immediately dismisses the idea of an accident, saying that the murder was carefully planned and well disguised.

In the course of the investigation many employees of the company fall under suspicion, including the director of Energreen, who owns the power plant. All that remains to be discovered is the motive and the identity of the perpetrator.

For English-speaking audiences, the series has been translated as “Follow the Money”, which immediately reflects the essence of what is going on.

The series has won six awards and ten nominations for various film awards, including the Danish Film Awards (Robert) and the Zulu Awards.

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