3 Season
32 Episode
Wallander - Season 1 Episode 5 The African
The national election is approaching, and the Ystad town square is plastered with election posters with local labour party candidate Kenneth Nillson, a politician fighting the fear of immigrants as his electoral focal point. He sees it as his duty to clean Skane's reputation as being racist. At the same time a train rolls into the train station in Gdansk, Poland. On the train the police find a African male with most of his face shoot away. As the man was murdered in Ystad, the starting point of the train journey this becomes a case for Kurt Wallander and the Ystad police. For Kurt Wallander the case takes an unexpected turn as the murder weapon has ties to a childhood friend.
- Year: 2013
- Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway
- Genre: Drama, Mystery, Comedy, Crime
- Studio: TV4
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- Director: Henning Mankell
- Cast: Krister Henriksson, Charlotta Jonsson, Signe Dahlkvist, Mats Bergman, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Douglas Johansson