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Saturday 25
July 2009
The Swedish Wallander
One of my favourite fictional detectives is Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander. I only discovered him a couple of years ago but have read quite a few of the Wallander novels since then.
Last year the BBC released a series of televised adaptations featuring Kenneth Branagh in the lead role. I only saw one or two of these (via the iPlayer site) but was very impressed with how they had captured the story. Last night Jane and I watched another episode but it turned out that this was the Swedish version.
We weren't disappointed though - the acting and direction were just as good and, as a bonus, we got the extra flavour of hearing it in Swedish (while having good subtitles to follow along). Mycket bra (I think)!
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