SERIES SUMMARYThe series based on Maria Lang’s crime novels is set

in the magic beauty of Bergslagen, a genuinely Swedish

environment. In six episodes, we meet Puck and Einar

Bure along with police superintendent Christer Wijk in

their quest to catch the killer. The murderer is always

“one of us” and the murder plots are crimes of passion.

Each episode is a classic whodunnit where we follow

the lives and fortunes of interesting characters in an

exciting thriller filled with love, sex, intrigue, betrayal,

secrets, lies, and death.

”The task of the mystery is to offer a few hours of

legitimate escape from reality by engaging us in a

problem. Its light, sometimes absurd, tone of comedy

is more important to me than heavy and serious social

realism.” – Maria Lang

MAIN CHARACTERS

CHRISTER WIJK: A police superintendent living in Stockholm, around

35 years old, who has a great love for Bergslagen where he spent his

childhood. He also loves women and women love him. He is perpetually

searching for “the right one”, but is not really willing to settle down.

Christer’s father died when Christer was only a young boy, leaving him to

grow up with his loving mother. Lacking financial means, she worked long

hours in a shoe shop to put food on the table, and one can almost say that

she is Christer’s greatest love. Christer is smart and people often see him as

enigmatic and somewhat secretive. Inside, he is a deeply passionate man,

a fact that he is reluctant to reveal to those around him. But his power of

attraction for women, and his exceptional skill in solving murder cases,

invites us to imagine all the boiling and smouldering going on inside him.

PUCK EKSTEDT: A student of literature, around 28 years old, who has

difficulty focusing on finishing her thesis. Married to Christer Wijk’s

childhood friend Einar. Puck is modern for her time, she is curious,

outspoken and spirited. It is through Puck that we enter the stories,

and she is the one we identify with. She is a good judge of character,

and her open attitude often tempts people to confide in her. Puck is a

pleasure-seeking girl with a great appetite for life, and she often finds it

difficult to choose duty before pleasure. The tension between her and

Christer, and her habit of providing the last piece of the puzzle in Christer’s

cases, has led to a playful yet not outspoken jealousy between the two of

them and Einar.

EINAR BURE: Puck’s husband and Christer Wijk’s best friend since

childhood. Although Christer and Einar come from different social

backgrounds, they have always been close friends. Einar is good looking,

humorous and witty, and, like Puck’s father, is a dyed-in-the wool academic.

He has a doctorate in history, with a special interest in the Middle Ages. Einar

appreciates the friendship between Puck and Christer and denies any shred

of jealousy. If one were to ask what Einar’s got that Christer lacks, the answer

would be this: whereas Christer is fleeting and passionate, Einar can offer

security and lasting love and especially the intellectual resistance that

Puck so badly needs.

1. DEATH OF A LOVED ONE

Puck has been invited by her tutor at the university

to celebrate midsummer at his secluded cottage on an

island together with a group of friends, among them

Einar Bure. Puck and Einar are having a secret relation-

ship, and he is the reason she says yes to the invitation.

The summer nights are seductively beautiful and erotic

tensions are rampant between the guests. Having been

out on a romantic spree with Einar, Puck finds one of

the female guests murdered. Einar contacts his friend

Christer Wijk, but upon Christer’s arrival, the dead body

has disappeared. Contact with the outside world is broken

when the island’s only boat goes missing. They are

trapped on the island – and someone amongst them

is a killer. Under these circumstances Puck gets to

know both Einar and Christer. But before the murderer

is exposed, two people have been killed, and one

person has committed suicide.

Original Title: Mördaren ljuger inte ensam

Directed by: Birger Larsen

Duration: 90 min.

2. KING LILY OF THE VALLEY

Spring is in the air and Puck and Einar, as well as

Christer Wijk, are invited to a wedding in Skoga.

The day before the wedding, the bride-to-be enters

a flower shop in order to inspect her lily of the valley

bouquet, but suddenly vanishes without a trace.

When she eventually turns up again, it is Christer who

finds her. She’s lying dead outside her home with a bouquet

of lily of the valley in her hand. Everybody close to the

bride is a suspect, not least her best friend, whom Christer

has just begun flirting with. Everybody seems to have

something to hide. The question is: are their secrets

connected to the murder?

Original Title: Kung Liljekonvalje av dungen

Directed by: Christian Eklöw & Christopher Panow

Duration: 90 min.

3. NO MORE MURDERS

Puck and Einar have been married for two months when

they decide to spend the last weeks of their vacation in

Einar’s idyllic childhood town of Skoga.

Puck’s father Johannes Ekstedt, professor of Egyptology,

has a cat named Thotmes III that joins the couple.

They get to borrow Einar’s sister’s beautiful old wooden

house as well as her highly competent housekeeper.

But after the first night, the idyll crumbles. Einar finds

a dead body on the lawn, a young man stabbed to

death with a dagger. Christer Wijk enters the stage

and with the help of Puck’s observations, the mystery

approaches its tragic solution.

Original Title: Inte flera mord

Directed by: Peter Schildt

Duration: 90 min.

4. ROSES, KISSES AND DEATH

The country estate of Rödbergshyttan is surrounded

by heavily fragrant roses of every colour. There lives the

beautiful Gabriella, whom Christer is in love with, and an

invitation to their engagement party is the reason that

Puck and her Einar travel there.

But the rose-scented idyll soon turns into a stifling

backdrop when Puck finds Gabriella’s grandfather

poisoned in his bed. Little by little, we learn that the

relationships between the people living on the estate

are anything but uncomplicated, and that there is a

sexual frustration behind every well polished marriage.

The question is to what extent beautiful Gabriella is

involved in the intrigues and how much of a coincidence

it is that her grandfather is killed just when Christer

is in the house.

Original Title: Rosor, kyssar och döden

Directed by: Daniel di Grado

Duration: 90 min.

5. DANGEROUS DREAMS

Puck has managed to get a job as stenographer for

the eccentric Nobel Literature Prize laureate Andreas

Hallman. Hallman is charming and genial, but also a

neurotic tyrant. He forces his wife, his three grown

children and a daughter-in-law to live in seclusion

together, separated from the rest of the world.

The atmosphere in the home is threatening and ultimately

fatal. One night, after the daughter-in-law’s birthday

dinner, Hallman’s eldest and best loved son dies.

The question is whether the son, who was frail and sickly,

died of natural causes or not. But not long afterwards,

Andreas Hallman himself dies, and now there is no doubt

that it is murder. An exquisite tale of poisoning unravels,

exposing Puck to a murder attempt. At the very last minute,

Christer Wijk manages to make the pieces of the puzzle

fall into place and also saves the life of an already

unconscious Puck.

Original Title: Farliga drömmar

Directed by: Molly Hartleb

Duration: 90 min.

6. TRAGEDY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD

It is Christmas Eve, and a sumptuous Christmas table

has been laid out in the vicarage for the vicar and his

guests, Puck and Einar Bure, and Professor Ekstedt.

Then there is a knock at the door. Blond and beautiful

Barbara Sandell announces that her husband is missing.

He is found murdered in his own country store and all

of a sudden the vicarage and the village are teeming

with photographers, forensic experts and police under

Christer Wijk’s command. Village gossip tears at old

wounds while the mystery surrounding the crimes

thickens. This is turning into a Christmas that the

peaceful village will never forget.

Original Title: Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård

Directed by: TBC

Duration: 90 min.

MAIN CAST

Puck Ekstedt: Tuva Novotny

Christer Wijk: Ola Rapace

Einar Bure: Linus Wahlgren

PRODUCTION FACTS

Based on: The classic crime novels

by author Maria Lang

Genre: “Whodunnit” Crime Series

Country of Origin: Sweden

Production Year: 2012

First Release: Spring 2013

Format: 16:9 (2:35.1) HD 1920x1080

Sound: 5.1 (Dolby 5.1)

Duration: 6x90 min

Delivery Date: Approx. July 2013

Executive Producer: Johan Mardell

Producer: Renée Axö

Production Company: Pampas Produktion AB

International Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri

MAIN CAST

Puck Ekstedt: Tuva Novotny

Christer Wijk: Ola Rapace

Einar Bure: Linus Wahlgren

PRODUCTION FACTS

Based on: The classic crime novels

by author Maria Lang

Genre: “Whodunnit” Crime Series

Country of Origin: Sweden

Production Year: 2012

First Release: Spring 2013

Format: 16:9 (2:35.1) HD 1920x1080

Sound: 5.1 (Dolby 5.1)

Duration: 6x90 min

Delivery Date: Approx. July 2013

Executive Producer: Johan Mardell

Producer: Renée Axö

Production Company: Pampas Produktion AB

International Sales: AB Svensk Filmindustri

CREW

Editor: TBC

Cinematographer: Mats Axby

Andres Rignell

Rolf Lindström

Jan Jonaeus

Production Designer: Annelie Wemstad

Make-up Designer: Helene Norberg

Therese Sandersson

Costume Designer: Ingrid Sjögren

Script by: Jonna Bolin-Cullberg (film 1, 2, 3, 5)

Charlotte Orwin (film 1, 2, 3, 5)

Kerstin Gezelius (film 4)

Alex Haridi (film 6)

Production Manager: Lisa Berggren Eyre

Produced by: Renée Axö

Directed by: Birger Larsen (film 1)

Christopher Panow &

Christian Eklöw (film 2)

Peter Schildt (film 3)

Daniel di Grado (film 4)

Molly Hartleb (film 5)

INTERNATIONAL SALES: AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRISE-169 86 Stockholm, Sweden

Phone: +46 8 680 35 00 / Fax: +46 8 710 44 60international@sf.se / www.sfinternational.se

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