The wrong track (2001)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The wrong track |
| Original title | Villospår |
| Country of production | Sweden , Denmark , Norway , Finland , Germany |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 166 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leif Magnusson |
| script |
Henning Mankell , Leif Magnusson |
| production | Gertrud Bengtsson |
| music |
Hans Åkerhjelm , Conny Malqvist |
| camera | Jens Schlosser |
| cut | Wadt Thomsen |
| occupation | |
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The wrong track (original title: Villospår ) is the start of a series of TV adaptations of the bestselling crime novels by Henning Mankell . a. continued with The Fifth Woman , Midsummer Murder, and The Firewall . With the cast, the producers complied with Mankell's request - who also worked on the script here - and engaged Rolf Lassgård , who had portrayed Wallander in earlier films. The 2001 film is based on the novel The Wrong Track . Directed by Leif Magnusson .
The German version was dubbed by ZDF in 2001 and broadcast as a three-part in December of the same year. The film is Wallander's fifth film adaptation, although the film versions differ from the chronology of the books, and was released on September 16, 2002 as a DVD version including the documentary Die Welten des Henning Mankell .
action
Commissioner Kurt Wallander has to watch a girl burn herself in a corn field. As he begins his investigation, a former attorney general is killed by a serial killer and more murders follow. The perpetrator scalps his victims and always appears in Indian disguise. Wallander quickly came across connections in the red-light district and in a swamp of prostitution and girl trafficking that spreads to upper Swedish society. Wallander also seems to be personally involved in the case.
criticism
The film website kino.de judged that Magnusson succeeded with “considerable authenticity in implementing the special Nordic melancholy mood of the Wallander books on the TV screen”. The "moments of tension" would not be left by the wayside. Compared to the book, the authors would have had to delete "some typical character traits of Mankell's book narrative", while in the murder scenes they would have "found a pleasant middle ground" and "opted for dark, atmospheric images rather than offensive depictions of violence". Lassgard shines in the role of the "introverted-sensitive police officer".
The film service said that the wrong track is a "tightly staged, dark crime film", "whose serial hero Kurt Wallander resignedly questions the state of a Swedish society that has lost all contours of the welfare state of the 90s based on the violent crimes assigned to him".
Web links
- Sidetracked in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The wrong track in the online film database
- The wrong track in the German dubbing index
- Ralf Mielke: The dead man in the maize field. Berliner Zeitung , December 28, 2001.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The wrong track. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media, accessed December 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Henning Mankell: The wrong track. In: filmdienst.de. Filmdienst , accessed on December 1, 2015 (short review).