Wallander: Sidetracked

Wallander: Sidetracked

Limited Series 2001 · 3 eps · ★ 6.3 · Drama, Crime

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It is autumn and the people in the otherwise peaceful small town Ystad settle down. But for Kurt Wallander broken idyll of a young woman burned to death in a cornfield. Soon after hitting a serial killer with a series of increasingly brutal murder. What is the relationship between a retired attorney general, a successful art dealer and an ordinary petty thief? Why scalp killer his victims?

Directed by Leif Magnusson · Written by Henning Mankell

Network: SVT1

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