The bridge - transit to death

Television series
German title	The bridge - transit to death
Original title	Broen (Denmark) , Bron (Sweden)
Country of production	Denmark , Sweden
original language	Danish , Swedish
Year (s)	2011-2018
Production company	SVT 1 , DR1 , ZDF
length	60 minutes
Episodes	38 in 4 seasons
genre	Crime film / Nordic Noir
music	Hollow Talk by Choir Of Young Believers Johan Söderqvist , Uno Helmersson, Patrik Andrén
First broadcast	September 21, 2011 on SVT 1
German-language first broadcast	March 18, 2012 on ZDF
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Die Brücke - Transit in den Tod (Danish original title: Broen , Swedish original title: Bron ) is a multi-part Danish - Swedish - German crime series . The name of the series title and location is the Øresund Bridge .

Details

The main motif of the series is the police cooperation between Danish and Swedish investigators in the Øresund region . The background is series of crimes and global political terrorism, which directly affect the two cities of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Malmö (Sweden) as well as the surrounding regions. Each season corresponds to a relatively self-contained plot (a self-contained, complex criminal case is dealt with per season, but the main characters' personal storylines continue from season to season). A strong feature of the series is that many subplots are not immediately recognizable to the viewer and are related to the main plot. Sometimes several parallel plots are continued over several episodes until the connection to the main plot emerges. This brought the second season of the Danish tabloid BT the criticism that too many actions and changing suspects overwhelm the viewer, who also has to remember a lot of names.

production

The main author was Hans Rosenfeldt , who developed the crime story on the Öresund Bridge. Måns Mårlind , Björn Stein, Nikolaj Scherfig and Camilla Ahlgren worked as co-authors on the development of the episodes.

action

season 1

The series is named after: The Øresund Bridge

A body is found on the Øresund Bridge after a power failure on the border between Sweden and Denmark. There the Danish detective inspector Martin Rohde and the Swedish detective inspector Saga Norén meet, as the body was deposited on the border between Denmark and Sweden. At first it still seems that there is a single corpse, namely that of a Malmö city ​​councilor, but a little later it turns out that there are two halves of the body. The abdomen is from a Copenhagen prostitute who was killed 13 months earlier. The prostitute's body had been frozen for more than a year.

In order to solve the case, the Danish and Swedish police and thus the two detective inspectors must work together. In the course of time, the perpetrator repeatedly turned to the public, including via his website and telephone calls to journalist Daniel Ferbé, in order to denounce various abuses in both countries. His first message is that much more investigative work is carried out for a city councilor than for a missing prostitute, where the unsuccessful investigation into the missing person at the time was stopped by the authorities after two weeks. At the end of the episode, the killer reports to the police again. With the next act he wants to draw attention to the grievances among the homeless.

To do this, the perpetrator poisoned wine bottles and distributed them to the homeless. One of the victims is the homeless girl Sonja Lindberg, who is seriously injured and hospitalized. His next victim is the homeless Bjørn Rasmussen, who is tied to a chair in a basement and displayed live on the Internet. After he was able to free himself, he escaped to a parking lot and met his kidnapper again. This anesthetizes and cuffs him to the chair again, but this time with a cannula on his upper body, through which blood slowly drains from his body. The viewers on the Internet can watch his impending death due to the blood loss live. The perpetrator demands five million crowns each from four wealthy property owners to keep Bjørn Rasmussen alive.

Meanwhile , the police are unable to trace the transmission of the truth terrorist , as the bridge killer is now called on the Internet. Saga Norén succeeds in interpreting Bjørn Rasmussen's blinking as Morse code , which tells her and the team the serial number of an electricity meter in a disused factory building in Malmö. However, the serial numbers were assigned twice, so that Martin and Saga have to drive to another industrial site and actually meet Bjørn and a masked man there, who leaves Martin alive after a surprise attack and can flee despite the special forces that have now arrived. For the weakened Bjørn, however, any help comes too late.

A few days later, Lasse Jönsson kills his psychologist in his practice with a samurai sword and then tries to take his own life. However, he is disturbed by employees in the practice and the suicide attempt fails. The bridge murderer again contacts the journalist Daniel Ferbé and draws his attention to the problem of extreme savings in the psychiatric area. Meanwhile, more strange murders take place in Malmö and Copenhagen, and it soon becomes clear that the bridge killer instigated mentally unstable people to commit the murders, which resulted in suicide. In order to finally get on the trail of the bridge murderer, Martin and Saga interrogate the murderer Lasse, who is the only survivor of the four murderers who remains silent.

In his apartment, the two detective inspectors discover traces of Anja Björk, a girl who ran away from home and who temporarily lived with Lasse. The pictures from the surveillance camera in front of Lasse's apartment show Anja with an unknown man who comes out of Lasse's apartment. It quickly becomes clear that the unknown man could be the bridge killer, and a manhunt for Anja is published. Shortly thereafter, a police patrol discovered her at the entrance to an underground car park. Anja is hit by a bullet from the bridge murderer in the underground car park. The girl is seriously injured and admitted to hospital, where she dies a little later with a half-finished face of the perpetrator in the presence of Saga Norén.

Martin recognizes similarities with the face of Stefan Lindberg in the half-finished drawing. When his home is searched, blood splatters are discovered and Lindberg is arrested. He protests his innocence, and the blood in his apartment does not come from any of the victims of the bridge murderer. He will be released. In the meantime, the bridge murderer draws attention to a fourth problem, the lack of integration of foreigners, on the Internet by kidnapping and killing a police officer. This had covered colleagues who had mistreated an immigrant to death by giving false testimony in court.

Finally, the bridge murderer wants to draw attention to his fifth and final problem: child labor . He kidnaps a school bus with five children and threatens to kill them if there is not a fire at five different corporations that manufacture their products using child labor. The children are saved and little by little the real face of the perpetrator becomes recognizable. After the Swedish and Danish police arrested two possible perpetrators, it turns out that a former colleague of Martin, Jens Hansen, who faked his suicide years ago, is behind the crimes. He does not want to point out any grievances, but only to take revenge on everyone he blames for his psychological breakdown at the time and the personal problems that followed. He wants revenge on Martin for having an affair with his wife. Shortly after an argument in which Jensen's wife announced the divorce, Jensen's wife and son died on the bridge in a car accident. Jens Hansen, who now calls himself Sebastian Sandstrod and who has completely changed his appearance after several facial operations, sneaks Mette Rohde's trust and locks her and the three children in a completely isolated house with an unlocked hand grenade in their hands. Martin is able to save his family after an anonymous tip. When everything seems to end well, Saga gets on the track of Jens Hansen's actual plan: He wants to kill Martin's grown son August in order to inflict the same pain on Martin that he felt at the time.

Martin's house is guarded, but Hansen still manages to shoot Saga and kidnap August. A hectic search for Jens and August begins. Jens lures Martin onto the bridge and gives him the opportunity to shoot him. Meanwhile, he broadcasts the scenes to the world via his website. Jens tells Martin that August is already dead, which is why Martin reaches for the trigger. But Saga steps in, shoots Martin in the arm and can arrest Jens. Saga had already found the walled-in August dead in Jens' garage.

season 2

The freighter Faxborg , which runs aground below the Öresund Bridge in the film

The second season starts again at the Øresund Bridge and takes place about a year after the events of the first season. Martin and Saga had no contact after Martin's son August's funeral. When a freighter runs aground in the fairway below the Øresund Bridge, apparently without a driver, a group of anesthetized adolescents infected with pulmonary plague is discovered inside . There is no trace of the actual crew. When it turns out that some of the young people in Denmark are reported missing, the saga called to the crime scene decides to visit their colleague Martin in Copenhagen. In the meantime, he has been transferred from the homicide squad as a measure to deal with trauma. However, he finds Saga's sudden visit a welcome change. Not least because she treats him without consideration or awareness of his emotional state. It turns out that Martin wants a piece of normality back in which he is no longer treated as a broken man. The viewer learns that Martin lives separately from Mette after the birth of his twins, but that the two attend couples therapy so that they can live together again later. When Saga re-enters Martin's life, he realizes that the only way to cope with the trauma inflicted on him in season one is to return to his actual work. He decides to stop the couple therapy for the time being and instead visits the murderer of his son, Jens, in prison to be able to look him in the eye. The second season takes up this storyline several times and shows Martin's visits to Jens. After Martin moved back in with Mette for a short time, Mette realizes that she no longer loves him. From Saga's private life, the viewer learns that she now lives in a relationship and in a shared apartment. Over the course of the season, this relationship and especially Saga's problem with emotional ties will be discussed. In one episode, Saga escapes to a hotel for two nights, since living together overwhelms her and is temporarily alone again. In the end, Saga's friend moves out of the shared apartment again. Saga's lack of a sense of irony is also a recurring theme in the series. In addition, the series manages the balancing act between comedy and tragedy by always allowing Martin and Saga to get into situations in which they complement each other.

Meanwhile, there is a series of poisonings in Copenhagen and Malmö. Saga and Martin can connect to several videos on the Internet through brooches, each depicting a golden toad, placed at the crime scenes. The first episodes of the second season are about Martin and Saga trying to identify the creators of the videos, and thus the murderers. This is a group that, like the antagonist of the first season, denounces various global grievances. The series interweaves several storylines, the connections of which are not always immediately recognizable for the viewer. The threads of the plot come together gradually and Saga and Martin are able to identify the group, but only shortly after they have carried out another attack, the explosion of a tanker truck in the free port of Malmö. When the access is supposed to take place, it turns out that the wanted group only acted in an executive manner - when the tasks were fulfilled, the members are unceremoniously murdered by the people behind the action. Saga and Martin arrive a fraction too late and can only recover corpses.

Saga and Martin follow in the footsteps of Julian, the brother of one of the murdered activists. He also seems to be involved in the action, but is also kidnapped before Saga and Martin can reach him. At the site of the kidnapping, they can get hold of Laura, Julian's assistant, who barely escaped death. From her and from Julian's computer records, Saga and Martin learn that Julian had made an appointment with the head of the movement over the Internet. A little later, however, he too was murdered and found dissolved in Lauge in Copenhagen.

Laura, who was shot during the kidnapping of Julian and subsequently suffered from amnesia , finally remembers the attacker's face. It turns out that it was Oliver Nordgren. His sister Victoria is the owner of the large pharmaceutical company Medisonus , which has already appeared several times in the investigation. Victoria is terminally ill and probably only has one year to live. She is morbidly cared for and monitored by her brother, who has an incestuous interest in her, of which neither she nor his wife Gertrud know.

When Victoria has finally had enough of Oliver's intrusiveness and gives him a clear message, the latter follows her into her bedroom and confesses that he is responsible for various unsolved crimes and that he has planned a final act that will make Victoria the heroine of Europe. Then he tries to smother her with a pillow. Gertrud appears at the last minute and is able to save Victoria by killing Oliver with a lamp. At the upcoming EU summit, Victoria will give a speech as the head of Medisonus. Before doing this, she asks Gertrud to bring her one of her usual morphine syringes, which she prepares without Victoria's knowledge. Unsuspecting, Victoria injects the contents of the syringe.

Meanwhile, the pathologist Saga clarifies that Julian and another victim were injected with a novel, dangerous poison that causes profuse internal bleeding that leads to agonizing death. The pathogens are highly contagious. To make the traces of the poison disappear, the corpses were dissolved in lye. Saga and Martin realize that Gertrud, as head of the Medisonus research department, must have been the one who injected the victims with the poison. Apparently Gertrud wanted to test on Julian and Ramon how quickly different doses lead to death. The investigators discover that Victoria was only a means to an end for Gertrud. The pathogen spreads as an aerosol in the air as soon as the infected person starts to bleed, e.g. B. by coughing. So you get infected just by breathing in. Gertrud wants Victoria to spread the virus during her presentation at a summit of European environmental politicians.

The building where the summit will take place will be quarantined . The investigators are looking for the infected Victoria, who urgently needs to be isolated from the others. She is found in the toilet by the policewoman Pernille. Before she can explain the situation, Victoria suddenly coughs up blood, with which Pernille is also doomed. Saga and Martin can no longer do anything for them. When Victoria dies in agony minutes later, Pernille shoots herself to avoid a painful death.

Meanwhile Gertrud can escape unnoticed. She records a video in an empty warehouse in which she expresses herself proud and confident of victory about the actions of the environmental terrorists. A man enters the hall, his face in shadow. He tells Gertrud that her efforts were not enough and shoots her. His identity remains unclear in the subsequent seasons.

At the end of the season, Saga found out on the news about Jens' alleged suicide from an overdose. When they in the evidence room discovered evidence that a phial of poison was stolen, she is convinced that Martin Jens killed. She passes this information and other clues on to her superiors, although it is visibly difficult for her. Martin is arrested.

season 3

Hans Rosenfeldt , the Swedish author of the first two seasons, announced in spring 2014 that the main script for the third season was ready. The Danish first broadcast took place on September 27, 2015, the German first broadcast on February 14, 2016. In June 2014 one of the main actors, Kim Bodnia aka Martin Rohde, announced the exit from the series. He was dissatisfied with the manuscript and the development of his role in Season 3; he no longer felt safe as a Jew in the Oresund region because of growing anti-Semitism. His request to include this topic in the plot of the series was not met. The film character Martin Rohde has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for his murder of Jens Hansen and does not appear in seasons III and IV, but is mentioned several times.

The third season revolves around the question of what a contemporary form of the family is. In the first episode, the investigators around Saga Norén, who is again the main character in the focus of the series, are confronted with the murder of the lesbian gender activist Helle Anker. The Danish investigator Hanne Thomsen is placed at her side to solve the murder case. The murdered Helle Anker had publicly advocated a deconstruction of the concept of gender and was the founder of a gender-neutral preschool. Her corpse is found in an artificial setting in which she and a few dolls form a traditional family sitting at the dining table. Investigators note that the corpse's heart has been removed. When visiting the caravan of the deceased's son, Morten Anker, Hanne Thomsen is seriously injured by a hidden anti-personnel mine and can no longer participate in the investigation. Her successor is Henrik Sabroe, a Danish policeman who has been addicted to drugs since his wife and children disappeared six years ago. Shortly afterwards, Morten Anker was also murdered. Lying dying, he was able to tell a homeless person that “his brother” had murdered him, which initially irritated the investigators because Morten only has a four-year-old half-brother.

When Hans Pettersson, the head of the Malmö police force and close confidante of Sagas, is kidnapped, the investigative team gets a new boss, the rigorous Linn Björkman. Hans Pettersson is now married to the Danish police chief Lillian Larsen; both accompanied the work of the team around Saga and Martin in the first two seasons. Hans is finally found seriously injured in a haunted house. He is missing a hand and has to be put into a coma due to excessive blood loss, which he is in for the majority of the season. When Hans is declared brain dead after a while in a coma and dies, a world collapses for Saga.

In what initially seems like a subplot, the surrogacy of Jeanette, who carries the child of the very wealthy investor Freddie Holst and his wife Åsa, is discussed. Åsa wears an artificial baby bump under her clothes during the day to give the public a chance to believe that she herself is pregnant with her child. From the museum guide and art expert Emil, the investigators learn that the previous murders are based on works of art, all of which are in Freddie Holst's collection. He tries to keep himself and his family out of the public eye because he wants to cover up the fact that there is a surrogate mother.

Saga continues to show typical behaviors of people with Asperger's Syndrome throughout the season ; Their special personality traits (lack of interpersonal empathy and other social deficits) come into focus and become more prominent. The trigger for this is, in addition to the death of her confidante Hans, her mother, who appears for the first time in the series. The latter harasses Saga and eventually dies, although it is initially unclear whether it is a suicide or a murder. It is suspected that she orchestrated her suicide in such a way that Saga is suspected of having caused it - a late revenge for a false testimony Saga made in court at a young age to withdraw her sister's family. Henrik Sabroe also brings his own family drama to the story. Plots are being prepared that lead into the fourth season. Saga and Henrik discover their affection for each other after meeting for quick sex in a bar. Saga gradually learns about Henrik's secrets: He lives with the "shadows" of his missing wife and children, with whom he speaks as if they lived in his house, and uses pills to help himself through his depression. Henrik gradually approaches Saga, whose detachment he values ​​and whose vulnerability he respects. He recognizes himself to a certain extent in her: They are both injured marginal existences who, albeit for different reasons, feel and think differently than most of the people around them.

At the end of the season, Henrik learns that a body has been found that has been identified as his missing wife. In the last shot, Henrik and Saga set out to look for Henrik's still missing children.

At the end of the season, some threads of the story remain open: Both the murder of the motivational speaker Claes of his father and the murder of the drug dealer Lukas Stenstrup, an army comrade of Morten Anker, are not cleared up.

Season 4

A stoned woman is found under the Øresund Bridge. Henrik Sabroe and his colleague Jonas Mandrup learned very quickly from the Danish police that it was Margrethe Thormod. She was the director of the Danish immigration office and shortly before the crime had taken a taxi to a gay bar. It is possible that Margarete Thormod was planning to help a homosexual Iranian go into hiding, whom she had to deport as head of the immigration office.

Saga Norén is initially still in custody because she is accused of her mother's death. After another decision, Saga is released from prison. Since there are connections to Sweden, and since Saga still has an intense relationship with Henrik Sabroe, she immediately begins to work on solving the case, despite Jonas' concerns. In addition, Saga is researching the disappearance of Henrik's family without a trace.

The final season also consists of parallel plots that are only brought together in the course of the episodes. A lot is happening on the Danish side. The husband of the first victim, the psychologist Niels Thormod, and the taxi driver Dan Brolund, who drove Margrethe Thormod to the gay bar, play a role. There is also a journalist, Richard Dahlquist, and his twin brother Patrik Dahlquist, who works as a hospital clown. There is also a group of arms dealers headed by William Ramberg. The taxi driver Dan Brolund was temporarily traveling as a courier for William Ramberg. The season shows Saga's strengths and weaknesses, especially in the relationship between her and Henrik Sabroe and in the interviews with other people. Saga shares her sharp and accurate factual observations and her conclusions from them without considering what this might cause you in the particular situation with other people. She fails to perceive her own feelings and those of others.

Henrik Sabroe takes two underage thieves into his home. The two had given the Iranian asylum seeker a cell phone from which Margrethe Thormod had been called shortly before she was murdered. The two girls remind Henrik Sabroe of his missing daughters. Henrik hopes to get information from the girls about who they stole the said cell phone from. Saga and Henrik meanwhile find Susanne Winter's wallet, who works for the psychologist Niels Thormod, in the hiding place of the thieves.

The Danish police find the Iranian, interrogate him and later apparently let him escape. Without knowing it, his wristwatch is equipped with a tracking device so that he can observe his contacts and activities. The action fails because the Iranian swaps the watch with the tracking device for a pistol. The Iranian had observed that Margrethe Thormod got into a black car shortly before she was murdered, and found out that the owner of this car was called Morgan Sonnig. The Iranian locates Morgan Sonnig, threatens him with a gun and steals money and his car. With a manhunt for Morgan Sonnig's car, the Iranian is quickly caught again. He takes a policewoman hostage , but shoots himself while the hostage is being taken. Saga, which is very difficult to develop and feel for the situation of others, made it unmistakably clear to the Iranian during the hostage-taking that he would have to reckon with a deportation after the hostage-taking and serving a prison sentence.

The taxi driver Dan Brolund locates the hiding place of his ex-wife and his son Christoffer in a secure settlement, looks for them and threatens his ex-wife. In the nearby forest, the father also happens to meet his son, who is out there with the villager Frank Wahlgren, and threatens him too. Christoffer fatally hits his father with a hunting rifle when he backs away from his father and stumbles. Frank Wahlgren removes Dan Brolund's body. He takes extraordinary care of Christoffer and his mother and persuades the mother to move in with him.

In the meantime, more people and one animal perished. Patrik Dahlquist dies from an electric shock. Arms and drug dealer William Ramberg is tricked into poisoning his own young daughter believing he must save her. The horse of a police officer in charge is locked in a horse and cart and killed by injecting gas. In briefing Saga notes that in the recent cases of execution of the death penalty were applied.

Saga and Henrik, whose relationship has since hit rock bottom, initially focus on possible connections between the victims. After killing the horse, they shift the focus of the investigation to the relatives. Henrik actually finds a connection between the relatives of the victims and not between the victims themselves.

The key to solving the case was four years ago: Sabroe had an informant among the arms and drug dealers, Tommy Petersen. Tommy was left alone in an attempt to blow up William Ramberg. Tommy then had to get out of the matter immediately and sought help from the psychologist Niels Thormod, but he did not help him. Tommy was later found murdered. His body showed clear signs of torture. Tommy left behind his wife Nicole Johannson and son Brian. Brian is 21 years old today. He is in a wheelchair after falling from a balcony under the influence of drugs and mourning the death of his father.

Nicole Johannson is now the wife of Martin Sonnig's brother. It turns out that Nicole had the opportunity to get the keys to Sonnig's car, which is connected with the murder of Margarethe Thormod. Brian and Henrik had now met in a self-help group.

Saga and Henrik realize that the perpetrator is taking revenge on those who abandoned Tommy Petersen at the time and on those who tortured and murdered him by ensuring that they lose loved ones: the psychologist Niels Thormod ( Stoning ), the chief of operations of the police who refused the operation ( gas ), the journalist ( electricity ), the drug dealer ( poison ). Saga and Henrik now know where to look, but cannot prevent another murder: Henrik finds the girlfriend of a then-boyfriend of Tommy Petersen hanged. That leaves the beheading and shooting as well as Henrik and his boss, Lillian Larsen. Neither of them supported Tommy Petersen at the time in his action against the arms dealers either.

Finally there is a reference to Henrik's daughter Astrid. She lives in the secure settlement in which Christoffer and his mother also live, and is passed off as the daughter of Frank Wahlgren. Astrid befriends Christoffer. Shortly before Frank Wahlgren loses his nerve, Astrid can be saved.

The joy of saving Astrid is suddenly interrupted when Lillian Larsen receives the exhumed head of the murdered police chief Hans Pettersson in a gift basket. Saga recognizes another connection between people: Silas Thuksen, the owner of the gay bar where Margrethe Thormod had her last meeting, and a clan member of Rambergs who was shot during Tommy's action four years ago, were brothers.

The psychologist Niels Thormod has meanwhile taken care of the two thieves. During a trip to the cinema together, one of the two girls recognizes a tag on the handbag of Thormod's secretary, Susanne Winter, that matches the stolen cell phone. The girls disappear first, but Winter puts them in front of Henrik's house. Saga is added shortly thereafter. After a short exchange of words, Saga is informed about winter by telephone. When turning back, Winter shoots Saga on the open road. Thanks to her gun vest , Saga remains able to act and causes an accident in the fleeing car.

Ultimately, it turns out that Susanne Winter was Tommy Petersen's girlfriend. She proudly confesses the six murders. Saga finds out she had Brian Petersen as an accomplice.

In the showdown , Brian Petersen (Sven) surprised Henrik in his house and shot Astrid in the leg in front of his eyes to see Henrik suffer. Saga puts an end to the ghost.

Saga later tells Henrik that she is going to quit her police service. In the final shot she drives over the bridge and stops at a hard shoulder. She gets out and goes to the bridge railing and throws her police badge into the water. Back in the Porsche, she receives a phone call. She accepts him and reports for the first time in 38 episodes only with: "Saga Norén" and not with the addition of "Kripo Malmö".

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was based on dialogue books by Cay-Michael Wolf (Season 1), Manja Condrus (Season 2), Carsten Bengelsdorf (Season 3) and Michael Schlimgen (Season 4) under the dialogue direction of Wolf by the dubbing company Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Berlin .

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Role name	actor	episode	Voice actor
Saga Norén	Sofia Helin	1.01-4.08	Antje von der Ahe
Martin Rohde	Kim Bodnia	1.01-2.10	Frank Röth
Hans Pettersson	Dag Malmberg	1.01-3.08, 4.04, 4.06	Florian Krüger-Shantin
John	Rafael Pettersson	1.01-3.10, 4.02-4.08	Viktor Neumann
Lillian Larsen	Sarah Boberg	1.03-2.01, 2.04-3.08, 3.10, 4.01-4.08	Arianne Borbach
Sebastian Sandstrod / Jens Hansen	Lars Simonsen	1.01, 1.03-2.10	Peter Reinhardt
Henrik Sabroe	Thure Lindhardt	3.01-4.08	Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Linn Björkman	Maria Kulle	3.01-3.10, 4.01-4.03, 4.07	Ilona Schulz
Jonas Mandrup	Mikael Birkkjaer	4.01-4.08	Matthias Klie

characters

• Saga Norén : Saga is a senior police officer in the Malmo Criminal Police Department. She has problems dealing with other people, especially when it comes to empathy , but does not act with bad intentions. It shows clear characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome . Interpersonal relationships beyond her job are a rarity for her, mostly she sleeps with strange men without feeling affectionate. In addition to her sister, Jennifer, who took her own life as a teenager, only her superior Hans and her colleagues Martin and Henrik were able to get closer to her. Saga often stands out for her painfully direct and honest manner, but also for her logical and clear approach, which makes her a very competent investigator. She occasionally suffers from insomnia, enjoys reading specialist books and drives an olive-green Porsche 911 S from 1977 , which she got from a fellow recruit at the police school on the basis of a bet she won. The colleague made a bet that she would never graduate. She was best of the year. In the course of the plot, her father dies, her mother commits suicide but makes it look like murder, Saga is therefore innocent in prison for a year and becomes pregnant by Henrik, but aborts the child.
• Henrik Sabroe : Henrik works as an investigator for the Copenhagen Criminal Police and, after Martin and Hanne, takes the place at Saga’s side in the cooperation between the two departments. What Saga lacks in compassion and empathy, he makes up for, and behaves as fanatical as his colleague during the investigation. Henrik is addicted to stimulants and struggles with them again and again after he's clean. The main triggers for relapses are recurring hallucinations of his wife Alice and his daughters Astrid and Anna, who disappeared without a trace several years ago - since then Henrik has lived alone in the family house and uses every free minute to gain new insights into their whereabouts. Despite everything, he enters into a relationship with Saga as the story progresses. Saga's research leads to the conclusion of the fourth season that he finds his daughter Astrid, who has now grown into a teenager.
• Martin Rohde : Martin is the first Danish partner at Saga Norén's side after a body was found on the Öresund Bridge, which connects the two countries . The caring family father is married to Mette. After initial difficulties in getting along with the complicated personality of the Swede, she even referred to him as a friend after working together for some time. In the course of the plot, Mette divorces him and his adult son August is killed. After the murder of his killer Jens, a former colleague, Saga reports him and he goes to prison.

Supporting cast

Role name	actor	episode	Voice actor
Mette Rohde	Puk Scharbau	1.01-2.01, 2.01-2.10	Sabine Arnhold
August Rohde	Emil Birk Hartmann	1.01–1.10	Jeffrey Wipprecht
Göran Soeringer	Dietrich Hollinderbäumer	1.01, 1.02, 1.04	Ernst Meincke
Sonja Lindberg	Maria Sundbom	1.03, 1.05-1.08	Katrin Zimmermann
Bjørn Rasmussen	Morten Suurballe	1.03-1.04
Let Jonsson	Martin Norén	1.03-1.05
Anja Björk	Fanny Ketter	1.02–1.05	Victoria Frenz
Daniel Ferbé	Christian Hillborg	1.01–1.07	Leonhard Mahlich
Charlotte Soeringer	Ellen Hillingsø	1.01–1.05	Silke Matthias
Stefan Lindberg	Magnus Krepper	1.01–1.07	Oliver Stritzel
Anne	Kristina Brändén	1.01–1.10	Dana Friedrich
Coroner	Gabriel Flores Jair	1.01, 1.02, 2.04, 2.06, 2.09, 2.10, 3.02, 3.05-3.07, 3.10, 4.02, 4.04, 4.07, 4.08	Matthias Rimpler
Jakob Sandberg	Daniel Adolfsson	2.01-2.09	Karlo Hackenberger
Gertrud Kofoed	Camilla Bendix	2.03, 2.07-2.10	Andrea Aust
Laura Möllberg	Julia Ragnarsson	2.01-2.08	Janin Stenzel
Julian Madsen	Peter Christoffersen	2.02-2.05
Matilde Madsen	Stephanie Léon	2.02-2.04
Mads Nielsen	Jakob Oftebro	2.02-2.04
Niklas Svensson	Alexander Öhrstrand	2.01-2.04	Tim Knauer
Katarina Lövgren	Ronja Svedmark	2.02-2.04
Rasmus Larsson	Henrik Lundström	2.02-2.10, 3.05-3.06, 3.08-3.10	Nicola Devico Mamone
Pernille Lindegaard	Vickie Bak Laursen	2.02-2.10	Petra Konradi
Marcus Stenberg	Fredrik Hiller	2.01, 2.06, 2.07, 2.09	Peter Flechtner
Caroline Brandstrup	Lotte Munk	2.01-2.10	Sabine Falkenberg
Victoria Nordgren	Tova Magnusson-Norling	2.04, 2.06-2.10
Oliver Nordgren	Sven Ahlström	2.05-2-09	Bernd Vollbrecht

Soundtrack

The title music for the opening and closing credits is called Hollow Talk and comes from the Danish band Choir Of Young Believers .

Charisma

The first episode of the first season was on September 21, 2011 in Sweden and on 28 September 2011 in Denmark erstausgestrahlt . The subsequent episodes were then broadcast almost simultaneously in Denmark and Sweden on Wednesdays until the end of November 2011. It was produced on behalf of DR , the Danish public television channels DR1 and SVT , Swedish public television, ZDF and independent production companies in the Ystad film studios .

In Germany, the first season was broadcast for the first time on March 18, 2012 on Sunday evenings around 10 p.m. by the co-producer ZDF in the form of a total of five double episodes of 110 minutes each . The first episode saw 3.36 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 17.0%.

The television series was sold outside of Denmark and Sweden by ZDF Enterprises in the United Kingdom . The rights went to the BBC , which showed the series on BBC Four in 2012.

The second season ran in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland for the first time between September 22nd and November 24th 2013 and since January 2014 in England; The second season was broadcast on ZDF in five double episodes from March 16 to April 13, 2014.

The premiere for the third season in Denmark and Sweden was September 27, 2015. The third season was broadcast on ZDF from February 14 to March 7, 2016, also in five double episodes.

The fourth and so far last season was shown in Sweden from January 1, 2018. It has been broadcast in Germany on ZDF since November 18, 2018.

reception

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• At the beginning of 2012, Spiegel-Kultur wrote about the first season under the heading Swedish skull, Danish abdomen : "Beautiful, sick Scandinavia: ... an ingenious crime thriller ... in which the human and the murderous are close together." Below it says: "A murderer with a mission wants to draw attention to grievances with his actions ... This begs the question: How far can a society be that needs criminals as a moral authority?" The author Christian Buß says: "The story breathes, throbs, hooks smoothly. The scenario is night black ... The serial perpetrator plot may seem bizarre, but the scenario is full of everyday life, human up to the last corner Needs and needs. " At the end of his article, Buß sums it up: "The bridge is great narrative television, it creates a sick parallel cosmos - a European nightmare country somewhere between Copenhagen and Malmö."

• Claudia Schwartz from the Swiss NZZ writes in February 2016 under the heading From her everything goes that the third season focuses on the "wonderful investigator Saga Norén". "What never drifts into private banter: large narrative television. Saga Norén is currently continuing what began with Sarah Lund ." At the end of her article, Schwartz says, "There is no question that a gloomy time diagnosis is being painted on the screen in cool colors at the same time."

DVD and Blu-ray publishing

The first season of the series was released in Germany on April 13, 2012 on DVD and on October 12, 2012 on Blu-ray . While the DVD has no subtitles - despite the presence of the original soundtrack - the Blu-ray contains them. In addition, the ten episodes were again combined into five double episodes.

Remakes

In 2012, plans for remakes based on the first season of the series were announced by both the American side and the British-French side . At the end of the decade, three more remakes were released.

• The American film The Bridge - America was broadcast from July 10, 2013 to October 1, 2014 in two seasons by the channel FX . The focal point of the plot is the bridge between Ciudad Juárez ( Mexico ) and El Paso, Texas ( USA ). The main characters are Diane Kruger , Demián Bichir and Matthew Lillard . On October 21, 2014, the broadcaster announced the discontinuation.
• The broadcast of the first season of the British-French version The Tunnel or Tunnelon Sky Atlantic and Canal + took place in late 2013 and was completed in December. Instead of a bridge, the focus here is on the Eurotunnel . The main actors are Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy . Three seasons were produced by 2017.
• In 2018 and 2020 two seasons of a Russian-Estonian version with the title Most ( Мост , Russian) and Sild (Estonian) were broadcast. The main roles are played by Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė and Mikhail Porechenkov , the action begins on the cross-border bridge over the Narva .
• In 2018, PCCW's streaming platform Viu announced that it was producing an Asian version that was set in the border area between Malaysia and Singapore.
• In January 2019, the first eight-part season of the German-Austrian television series Der Pass began to be broadcast on Sky Deutschland and ZDF . Filming for a second season began in early 2020. Instead of the Öresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden, there is the mountain pass between Bavaria and Austria, which forces investigators from the two countries to work together. Otherwise the plot differs greatly from the original.

Web links

• Bron / Broen in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Bridge - Transit into Death. Fernsehserien.de, accessed on February 19, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Niels Lind Larsen: 'Broen' flopper: Det går alt for hastigt. BT , September 29, 2013, accessed October 3, 2018 (Danish). 
3. ↑ Borgen 2 And Broen Finish Season With Panache. Nordisk Film & TV Fond, December 2, 2011, archived from the original on September 4, 2012 ; accessed on October 3, 2018 (English). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Marcus Kirzynowski: "The Bridge" Season 3 from February on ZDF. Wishlist.de , October 13, 2015, accessed October 3, 2018 . 
5. ↑ "Rodhe" hoppar av "Bron" i protest. Svenska Dagbladet , June 8, 2014, accessed October 3, 2018 (Swedish). 
6. ↑ Katharina Schmidt-Hirschfelder: Jew hatred on the Öresund - actor cancels participation in crime series. Jewish community warns against generalizations. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . Central Council of Jews in Germany , February 18, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Matthias Hannemann: Such a cumbersome procedure. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 14, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2018 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c} The bridge - transit to death. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on January 4, 2017 . 
9. ^ Denis Bergemann: Ellen Hillingsø German dubbing voices | Actor | Movies | Series | Audio samples | On-line. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Choir of Young Believers - Hollow Talk (2011). New Music United, September 30, 2011, accessed October 3, 2018 . 
11. ↑ The Bridge - Transit to Death. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 29, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Manuel Weis: Thrillers score: Strong ratings for “Mentalist” and “Die Brücke”. Oddsmeter.de , March 19, 2012, accessed October 3, 2018 . 
13. ↑ BBC Four acquires two new Scandanavian drama series. BBC , October 4, 2011, accessed October 3, 2018 . 
14. ↑ ZDF Enterprises sells two new Scandinavian crime series to BBC Four. ZDF , October 3, 2011, accessed October 3, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Die Brücke - Transit in den Tod: Season 2. In: ZDF . Archived from the original on April 18, 2014 ; accessed on August 29, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Christian Buß: Swedish skull, Danish abdomen in mirror culture from March 17, 2012, accessed on June 20, 2020
17. ↑ Claudia Schwartz: Everything goes out from her in Neue Zürcher Zeitung of February 14, 2016, accessed on June 20, 2020
18. ↑ The Bridge - Transit to Death. OFDb.de , April 16, 2012, accessed on February 16, 2016 . 
19. ^ Alison Willmore: AMC Cancels 'The Killing' While FX Orders a Pilot for a Scandinavian Remake of Its Own. IndieWire, July 30, 2012, accessed October 3, 2018 .  }
20. ^ Canal + and Sky Atlantic team up for Bron / Broen remake. SpoilerTV, May 25, 2012, accessed October 3, 2018 . Canal + and Sky Atlantic team up for Bron / Broen remake 
21. ↑ James Hibberd: 'The Bridge' canceled by FX. Entertainment Weekly , October 21, 2012; archived from the original on November 2, 2015 ; accessed on October 3, 2018 (English). 
22. ↑ Мост. Weit Media, accessed October 3, 2018 (Russian). 
23. ↑ Patrick Frater: Asian Adaptation of 'The Bridge' Secures Support From Rivals Viu and HBO. In: Variety . Penske Media Corporation (PMC), August 28, 2018, accessed November 3, 2018 . 
24. ↑ Sky.de: Start of shooting for the 2nd season of "Der Pass" from January 30, 2020 [1]