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Gåsmamman (2015)

Gåsmamman poster
Directed by
Richard Holm
Genre
thriller, drama television series
Country
Sweden
Length
7 seasons, 56 episodes
Rated
16
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman named Sonja lives a normal life with her family outside Stockholm. She works as an accountant at the family business. But she gets pulled into the criminal underworld to protect her family.

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What happens

Gåsmamman is a Swedish drama series that started airing on C More Series in November 2015. The lead role is played by Alexandra Rapaport. The series premiered on Kanal5 on 18 February 2016. The series is based on the Dutch drama series Penoza from 2010 created by Pieter Bart Korthuis and Diederik van Rooijen. There is also an American version of the series from 2013, called Red Widow. The story focuses on Sonja (Alexandra Rapaport) who lives a carefree life with her family near Stockholm and works as an accountant in the family business at the marina. One day Sonja is drawn into the criminal underworld to save her family. Originally the show was released on a movie channel and SVOD platform C More, with a terrestrial release the following year on Kanal 5. TV 4, the parent company of C More took over the terrestrial right with season 4. Alexandra Rapaport won the 2017 Kristallen Award 2017 for the Best Female Role in a Television Production for Gåsmamman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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