The novel has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 7, read by the English actor David Warner, who plays Wallander's father in the British television adaptation of Wallander. Fredrik Gunnarsson, who played Svartman in the Swedish TV series, had a cameo in this episode. It was first broadcast on 3 January 2010. Wallander is played by Rolf Lassgård.įaceless Killers has also been adapted into a 90-minute television episode for the BBC's Wallander series starring Kenneth Branagh as Wallander. Does the book focus on a single main character, a few characters, or a. The novel was adapted into a four-episode television miniseries, Wallander, by the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television in 1994. The story focuses on Sweden's liberal attitude regarding immigration, and explores themes of racism and national identity. But his conclusion leads to several racially-motivated attacks after the information is leaked to the press. He thinks that Mrs Lovgren's last word is accurate, and that the murderers are foreign. Rydberg has been examining the noose around Mrs Lovgren's neck and "has never seen one like it before". Maria Lovgren is taken to hospital, but dies anyway. But when he finds an elderly couple brutally tortured, the husband dead and the wife barely. and summoned to the scene of a crime outside the village of Lunnarp, he thinks the whole thing might be little more than a senile farmer's overactive imagination. Inspector Kurt Wallander, a forty-two-year-old Ystad police detective, is put on the case with his team: Rydberg, an aging detective with rheumatism Martinsson, a 29-year-old rookie Naslund, a thirty-year veteran Svedberg, a balding, forty-something-year-old detective Hansson and Peters. When Kurt Wallander is suddenly wakened from an erotic dream at 5:13 a.m. Inside an almost isolated Skåne farmhouse in Lunnarp, an old man, Johannes Lövgren, is tortured to death and his wife Maria savagely beaten and left for dead with a noose around her neck. Think about the other people in the book besides the author. What gaps do you wish the author had filled in Were there points where you thought he shared too much 44. How honest do you think the author was being 43. In 1992, Faceless Killers won the first ever Glass Key award, given to crime writers from the Nordic countries. What aspects of the author’s story could you most relate to 42. Faceless Killers ( Swedish: Mördare utan ansikte) is a 1991 crime novel by the Swedish writer Henning Mankell, and the first in his acclaimed Wallander series.
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