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The Copenhagen Film Fund is now one year old, and has played a leading role in ensuring that Kenneth Branagh will be in Denmark to film the final episodes of the BBC’s hit series of ”Wallander”.

The Copenhagen Film Fund has just recently entered into an agreement with the company behind the UK version of “Wallander” and the BBC, to invest in the final three episodes of the highly successful detective tales.  A week of shooting has been scheduled in Copenhagen, featuring of course the English film star Kenneth Branagh.

The English version of “Wallander” has earned world-wide acclaim, and in that sense placed Skåne in Sweden, where the first six episodes were

filmed, on the world map.  Now filming has been scheduled in Copenhagen, and, as an added bonus – the episode in question is the final one in the Series, based on Henning Mankell’s “The Troubled Man”. This should secure even greater media attention for this episode, for which the City of Copenhagen is the setting.

Thomas Gammeltoft again:

–       We are of course proud that Copenhagen is prominently featured in this extremely popular series. It has been extremely important to us to have Danish crew members working on the Series, in which production design, visual effects and stunt coordination are also in Danish hands. We are proud to welcome Kenneth Branagh and Co. to our capital, and greatly look forward to playing host to them. 

The two episodes will be filmed in Ystad and in Copenhagen. The Season comprises another episode, to be filmed in South Africa, “The White Lioness”. Filming in Ystad and Copenhagen will take place in October 2014, and in South Africa in January 2015. The Swedish company Yellow Bird is behind the Series. As with the previous episodes, these episodes are co-produced with the UK’s Left Bank Pictures.

Screenwriter Peter Harness, who wrote the scripts for the previous Season, will also write the final Season. Ben Caron will direct.

 

Photo: Laurence Cendrowicz