Crimes of Passion (2013)

Original title

Mördaren ljuger inte ensam

Directed by

Birger Larsen

Genre

thriller

Country

Sweden

Length

1 season, 9 episodes

Rating

1.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Six feature-length crime films based on early novels by Swedish author Maria Lang. Each story follows a detective solving murders in 1940s and 1950s Sweden.

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What happens

Crimes of Passion is the English collective title for a series of six feature-length crime films released in 2013, based on six of the early novels of the prolific Swedish crime novelist Maria Lang (real name Dagmar Lange), written in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The films were co-produced by Svensk Filmindustri and Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4. The first film was released in Swedish cinemas on 8 March 2013, and received indifferent or poor reviews from most Swedish critics. The remaining five were released on DVD in Sweden during the autumn of 2013 and were all made available on TV4's subscription video on demand service TV4 Play Premium in June 2014. In October and November 2014, the six films were shown on TV4's DTTV service. On 11 December 2013 BBC Four announced that it had bought the British broadcasting rights to Crimes of Passion, with the series premiering on BBC Four on 30 August 2014. The films have been described as Mad Men meeting The Killing. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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