Wallander (UK TV series)
| Wallander | |
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| Genre | Crime |
| Written by |
Novels Henning Mankell Screenplays Richard Cottan Peter Harness Richard McBrien |
| Directed by |
Philip Martin Niall MacCormick Benjamin Caron |
| Starring | Kenneth Branagh |
| Opening theme | "Nostalgia" by Emily Barker |
| Composer(s) |
Martin Phipps Vince Pope |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom Sweden |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 12 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Francis Hopkinson Anne Mensah Rebecca Eaton Hans-Wolfgang Jurgen Anni Faurby Ole Søndberg Kenneth Branagh Andy Harries |
| Producer(s) | Daniel Ahlqvist Simon Moseley Sanne Wohlenberg |
| Location(s) |
Ystad, Sweden Skåne, Sweden |
| Cinematography |
Anthony Dod Mantle Jan Jonaeus Igor Martinovic Lukas Strebel |
| Editor(s) | Tony Cranstoun Kristina Hetherington Tim Porter |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Left Bank Pictures Yellow Bird TKBC |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC One BBC HD (2008–10) |
| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 30 November 2008 – 5 June 2016 |
Wallander is a British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector. It is the first time the Wallander novels have been adapted into an English-language production. Yellow Bird, a production company formed by Mankell, began negotiations with British companies to produce the adaptations in 2006. In 2007, Branagh met with Mankell to discuss playing the role. Contracts were signed and work began on the films, adapted from Sidetracked, Firewall and One Step Behind, in January 2008. Emmy-award-winning director Philip Martin was hired as lead director. Martin worked with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to establish a visual style for the series.
The first three-episode series, produced by Yellow Bird, Left Bank Pictures and TKBC for BBC Scotland, was broadcast on BBC One from November to December 2008. The second series was filmed from July to October 2009 and was broadcast in January 2010. The third series was filmed in the summer of 2011 in Ystad, Scania, Sweden, and Riga, Latvia, and aired in July 2012. The fourth and final series was shot from October 2014 to January 2015 and premiered on German TV, dubbed into German, in December 2015. The final series aired in the original English on BBC One in May 2016. Critics have written positively of the series, which has won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award (Best Actor for Branagh) and six British Academy Television Awards, including Best Drama Series.
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