MARIA WERN

ALLAN SVENSSONEVA RÖSE PETER PERSKI ULF FRIBERG

The Maria Wern series consists of 7 feature-length episodes

based on the best-selling novels by author Anna Jansson

and starring acclaimed swedish actress Eva Röse:

1. THE SPEECHLESS GOD

2. ALL THE TRANQUIL DEAD

3. DREAMS FROM SNOW

4. MAY DEATH SLEEP

5. BLACK BUTTERFLY

6. BOY MISSING

7. NOT EVEN THE PAST

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© 2010 EYEWORKS DRAMA, TV4 AB, AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE EXCLUDING SCANDINAVIA, BENELUX AND GERMAN-SPEAKING EUROPE

Based on the best-selling novelsby author Anna Jansson

7 X 90 MINUTES

INTERNATIONAL SALES

AB Svensk FilmindustriSE–169 86, Stockholm, SwedenPhone: +46 8 680 35 00 Fax: +46 8 710 44 60E-mail: [email protected] www.sfinternational.se

www.sfinternational.se

Who is Maria Wern?

After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern moves to the picturesque Swedish island Gotland with her two children to start over.

While struggling with raising two children as a single mother and still mour-ning her husband’s death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male dominated environment. She cons- tantly encounters rage, death and evil but she stays determined to endure what sometimes feels like an unwinnable battle.

The Maria Wern series consists of 7 feature-length episodes based on the best-selling novels by author Anna Jansson and starring acclaimed Swedish actress Eva Röse:

1. The Speechless God 2. All the Tranquil Dead 3. Dreams from Snow4. May Death Sleep

5. Black Butterfly 6. Boy Missing 7. Not Even the Past

Anna Jansson, author– high excitement and ethical dilemmas.

In a genre full of sudden, wicked death, Anna Jansson manages to keep a discussion about present ethical problems concerning people’s relation to life and death. The main character is Maria Wern, who becomes much more than a police when the reader in book after book is allowed to move deeper and deeper into her private life and feelings. 2005 Anna Jansson’s The Silver Crown (Silverkronan) received an award (Guldpocket) for over 50.000 sold copies. Her book Strange Bird (Främmande fågel) was 2006 nominated to Glasnyckeln (The Glass Key), the price for best Scandinavian crime novel. There are now 10 books about Maria Wern starting with the debut The Speechless God.

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1.THE SPEECHLESS GODSTUM SITTER GUDEN

In the midst of the midsummer celebrations on the island of

Gotland, a series of vicious murders take place with occult

overtones. A man is found strung up alongside slaughtered

animals; another is found sacrificed in his car in the middle

of a summer meadow. The holiday paradise is shattered and

soon attention falls on an old murder case involving a long-

deceased killer that someone is clearly mimicking...

And while the investigation leads them ever deeper into a maze

of Aesir beliefs and the obsessions of a sick mind, Maria Wern

and her colleagues find themselves in a race against time, as

they try to catch the murderer before he strikes again…

Director: Erik Leijonborg Duration: 90 min

2.ALL THE TRANQUIL DEADALLA DE STILLSAMMA DÖDA

A lawyer on his way home through the sun-drenched

Gotland countryside disappears without a trace. An island

mink farmer receives a death threat and a sadistic trap is set

up on his premises. Two separate events that soon prove to

be linked — and from the moment that the first dead body is

discovered, it becomes clear that it is just the beginning of

something much bigger.

Ignoring the protests of her colleagues, Maria Wern allows

herself to become deeply involved, professionally as well as

personally, in the investigation. But all is not as it seems, and

soon Maria finds herself in greater danger than she realised...


3.DREAMSFROM SNOWDRÖMMAR UR SNÖ

It’s Christmas on Gotland when the island is suddenly struck

by an unspeakable tragedy — a high-school girl is found dead

in the middle of a country road wearing a white Lucia gown.

What at first appears to be an incomprehensible suicide

soon proves to be something far more sinister, when behind

the innocent facade it turns out that a group of girls at the

local high school is harbouring dark secrets...

Together with her colleagues of the Gotland Police

Department, Maria Wern digs ever deeper into the conflicts

at the girl’s high school — and when the police discover

veiled threats on the Internet, there is a growing fear that

this girl’s death will not be the last.


4.MAY DEATHSLEEPMÅ DÖDEN SOVA

Two women, seemingly unconnected to each other, die in

apparent suicides. But the strange circumstances cause

Maria Wern and her colleagues at the Gotland Police

Department to dig deeper, and soon the questions multiply.

Was someone stalking the women? Is there reason

to believe that they were suffering from some kind of

psychosis? And is there a common denominator after all...?

The investigation takes an unexpected turn when the

police discover even more dead bodies — and soon Maria’s

colleagues Ek and Erika are forced far further into the

centre of events than they had counted on...


5.BLACKBUTTERFLYSVART FJÄRIL

The charred body of a medium is found in the gutted remains

of her office after a fire. And it soon turns out that she was

murdered —suffocated with a plastic bag and doused in

kerosene, the woman was left to die in the flames. When

another two murders take place in the same manner, it

becomes clear to the Gotland police that they have a serial

killer on their hands - but without having the slightest idea what

the victims had in common, or who the next one might be.

Maria Wern is forced to lead an investigation where neither the

motive nor the victims seem to be connected — at the same

time that her colleague Arvidsson’s loyalty is forcibly put to

the test...

Director: Charlotte Berlin and Leif Lindblom Duration: 90 min

6.BOYMISSINGPOJKE FÖRSVUNNEN

A ten-year-old boy disappears from a dinner in a little fishing

village, while another vanishes from a refugee camp on the

island. These are but the first in series of frightening events

to take place on the island of Gotland, where a string of

brutal murders are committed in quick succession.

And what starts out as the search for a missing child,

leads Maria Wern and her colleagues ever deeper into a

nest of hidden agendas, personal betrayals — and links

to international crime.

For hidden beneath this little fishing paradise, lie secrets that

prove more dangerous than anyone could have imagined...

Director: Charlotte Berlin and Leif Lindblom Duration: 90 min

7.NOT EVENTHE PASTINTE ENS DET FÖRFLUTNA

When Maria Wern of the Gotland Police Department receives

anonymous death threats, she and her colleagues begin a

frantic search to track down the source. Following a violent

assassination attempt, however, she is ordered off the island

for her own protection. Together with a group of old girlfriends

from school, she secretly heads off to the pristine nature

reserve of Stora Karlsö Island.

But while Maria’s colleagues on Gotland do their best to find

the culprit, it becomes increasingly clear that the murderer

may have followed her out on her wilderness getaway. And

instead of being safely hidden away, the seven women are

hovering in mortal danger...


Production Facts

MAIN CAST:

Eva Röse

Allan Svensson

Peter Perski

Ulf Friberg

FACTS:

Based on: the best-selling novels by author Anna Jansson

Genre: Crime Series

Country of Origin: Sweden

Production Year: 2010-2011

First Release: November 2010

Format: 16:9, HD 1920 x 1080 25P

Sound: 2ch Stereo, 5.1

Duration: 7x90 min

Delivery date: Approx. July 2011

International Distribution: AB Svensk Filmindustri

CREW:

Editor: Sebastian Amundsen (ep. 1,2,5,7) and

Hélène Berlin (ep. 3,4,6)

Director of Photography: Carl Persson, FSF

Art Director: Lars Strömsten (ep. 1-2), Pia Wallin (ep. 3-4)

and Inca Leijonborg (ep. 5-7)

SeniorArt Director: Inca Leijonborg (ep. 3-4)

Composer: Magnus Strömberg, Apparat studios

Make-up: Jenny Fred (ep. 1-2) and Nina Spjut (ep. 3-7)

Costume: Cilla Rörby (ep. 1-2) and Annika Gaimer (ep. 3-7)

Script: Anna Fredriksson (ep. 1), Fredrik T Olsson (ep. 2),

Fredrik T Olsson and Anders Brundin (ep. 3),

Erik Ahrnbom (ep. 4), Alexander Söderberg (ep. 5),

Therese Bringholm (ep. 6), Erik Ahrnbom and

Fredrik T Olsson (ep. 7)

Executive Producers: Erika Edman, Tobias Bringholm, Åsa Sjöberg,

Niva Westlin Dahl (all ep.), Bo Rehnberg (ep. 1-2)

and Josefin Tengblad (ep. 3-7)

Producer: Birgitta Wännström, Martin Söder (Creative Producer)

ProductionCompany: Eyeworks Drama

Sound: Magnus Bergentz (ep. 1-2) and Lasse Liljeholm (ep. 3-7)

Director: Erik Leijonborg (ep. 1-4,7), Charlotte Berlin and

Leif Lindblom (ep. 5-6)

ALLAN SVENSSONEVA RÖSE PETER PERSKI ULF FRIBERG

The Maria Wern series consists of 7 feature-length episodes

based on the best-selling novels by author Anna Jansson

and starring acclaimed swedish actress Eva Röse:

1. THE SPEECHLESS GOD

2. ALL THE TRANQUIL DEAD

3. DREAMS FROM SNOW

4. MAY DEATH SLEEP

5. BLACK BUTTERFLY

6. BOY MISSING

7. NOT EVEN THE PAST

CR

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ITS

NO

T C

ON

TRA

CTU

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© 2010 EYEWORKS DRAMA, TV4 AB, AB SVENSK FILMINDUSTRI. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE EXCLUDING SCANDINAVIA, BENELUX AND GERMAN-SPEAKING EUROPE

Based on the best-selling novelsby author Anna Jansson

7 X 90 MINUTES

INTERNATIONAL SALES

AB Svensk FilmindustriSE–169 86, Stockholm, SwedenPhone: +46 8 680 35 00 Fax: +46 8 710 44 60E-mail: [email protected] www.sfinternational.se

www.sfinternational.se

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