The Valhalla Murders (2019)
- Original title
- Brot
- Genre
- drama, crime
- Country
- Iceland
- Length
- 1 season, 8 episodes
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 148 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A detective returns to his native Iceland to investigate a series of murders in Reykjavik. The killings are connected to a decades-old scandal at a state-run institution for troubled boys.
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What happens
The Valhalla Murders (Icelandic: Brot, lit. 'Violation') is an eight-episode police procedural television series created by Thordur Palsson and produced in Iceland, originally airing there in 2019, then released worldwide in 2020 on Netflix and airing for free on BBC Four in the UK. This is the second Icelandic series to be featured on Netflix as an original series after Trapped (Ófærð)'s third season, Entrapped. The plot is loosely based on a real-life incident. As described in an article on the website MEAWW, "In the late 1940s, an almost similar event took place in remote Iceland. A state-run institution ... housed troubled, young boys, aged between seven and 14, where they were beaten and abused by the staff. Although in reality there was no murder, per se, as shown in the series, it caused quite a noise and the boys were eventually compensated in monetary terms." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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