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The Bridge (Danish: Broen; Swedish: Bron) is a Scandinavian crime drama television series, co-produced by Sveriges Television and Danmarks Radio as well as ZDF, two series of which have so far been completed. The first series started with a police investigation following the discovery of a dead body on the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark. It was first broadcast on SVT1 and DR1 during the autumn of 2011.

The Bridge was the first joint creative and financed production between Sweden and Denmark. It was created by Hans Rosenfeldt and written by Björn Stein.[1]

The second series aired in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland over ten weeks from 9 September to 24 November 2013.,[2][3][4] and will begin airing in the United Kingdom on BBC Four from 4 January 2014.[5]

What appears to be the body of a female Swedish politician is discovered in the middle of the Øresund Bridge, which connects Copenhagen in Denmark with Malmö in Sweden. The body, cut in half at the waist, has been placed precisely on the border between the countries, thus falling under the jurisdiction of both the Danish and Swedish police agencies. After further examination, it turns out that the body is that of two separate corpses, with one half belonging to a Danish prostitute. Saga Norén, from the Swedish side, and Martin Rohde, from the Danish, lead the investigation to catch the murderer.[6][7]

The investigation quickly escalates as a journalist, Daniel Ferbé, whose car was used in the crime, begins receiving phone calls. The caller, who becomes known as the "Truth Terrorist", claims to be committing his crimes in order to draw attention to various social problems. A social worker, Stefan Lindberg, whose sister becomes a victim of the Truth Terrorist, becomes an early suspect. However, events soon lead the Danish and Swedish teams to conclude that the killer has connections to the police.

In the course of the investigation, Martin and Saga develop a close working relationship, although they are very different people. Martin has an eighteen-year old son from his first marriage, August, who is now living with Martin and his current wife, Mette, by whom Martin has three children; after Martin has had a vasectomy, Mette discovers that she is expecting twins. Saga lives alone and does not seem to feel she needs a serious relationship, instead picking up men in bars for casual sex. She appears to have symptoms consistent with Asperger syndrome, resulting in difficulty establishing relationships and feelings of inadequacy in managing people; she refuses promotion for this latter reason.

After the killer has murdered several people and successfully thrown red herrings in the way of the investigation, his true purpose – to strike at Martin himself – eventually becomes clear. They discover that the crimes have been planned over a period of several years. The trail eventually leads them to Jens, a Danish policeman and former close friend of Martin's, who was thought to have committed suicide after an accident on the bridge caused the deaths of his wife and son. Jens, now calling himself Sebastian Sandstrod, first approaches Mette, who is susceptible to his advances, after learning that Martin has slept with Charlotte Söringer, a woman who is peripherally involved in the investigation. Sebastian lures Mette and her children to a remote spot where he subjects them to a terrifying ordeal, locking them in a room and giving her a hand grenade with its pin removed to hold as long as she can. However, Saga realises that August is the real target. The investigation culminates in a confrontation on the bridge, where she cannot help but tell Martin what happened to August and has to fire at him in order to prevent him destroying his career by killing Sebastian, the killer's final intention.

Cast

Main

Sofia Helin as Saga Norén, the lead homicide detective in Malmö
Kim Bodnia as Martin Rohde, the lead homicide detective in Copenhagen
Dag Malmberg as Hans Petterson, a senior criminal police officer in Malmö
Sarah Boberg as Lillian, a senior criminal police officer in Copenhagen
Lars Simonsen as Jens Hansen/Sebastian Sandstrod, a former police colleague of Martin Rohde turned serial killer
Christian Hillborg as Daniel Ferbé, a journalist at Aftonposten in Malmö
Magnus Krepper as Stefan Lindberg, a social worker in Malmö
Puk Scharbau as Mette Rohde, Martin Rohde's wife

Recurring

Emil Birk Hartmann as August Rohde, Martin Rohde's eldest child
Rafael Pettersson as John Lundqvist, IT-expert for Malmö police
Dietrich Hollinderbäumer (de/it) as Goran Söringer, a property developer
Ellen Hillingsø as Charlotte Söringer, Goran Söringer's wife
Maria Sundbom as Sonja Lindberg, Stefan's sister


The first airing of the series was screened on Sweden's SVT1 weekly from Wednesday 21 September 2011 at 21.00. Denmark's DR1 followed a week later in their 20.00 slot every Wednesday. By screening the final episode immediately after episode 9, DR1 managed to screen episode 10 simultaneously with SVT1.

On several occasions, The Bridge failed to have sufficient viewers to be placed in SVT1's weekly Top 10 programmes. This was mainly due to competition from commercial broadcaster TV4 with their offering gaining over a million viewers. In Sweden, The Bridge won its timeslot for the first five episodes against weak competition from Hawaii Five-0 on TV4. From episode 6, it aired against the popular reality show Berg flyttar in (sv), which would beat The Bridge until the final episode, when they virtually tied.
International distribution

Sveriges Television reported that up to November 2013, the first series had been purchased for broadcasting in 134 countries worldwide.[18] In the UK, the series was shown in weekly two-episode blocks on BBC Four and BBC HD from 21 April 2012.[6] In Germany, it was shown by broadcaster ZDF from 18 March 2012.[19] In Poland, the series was broadcast in double episodes from 2 May to 30 May 2012 on Ale Kino+. In Brazil, the series premiered on +Globosat channel on 13 August 2012 at 22h. The series premiered in Australia on Wednesday, 5 September 2012 on SBS Two,[20] where the first episode had overnight ratings of 101,000 viewers.[21] It was also screened in Israel on September 30 on HOT VoD. Co-producers NRK screened the series in Norway with audiences in excess of 600,000 viewers. NRK are also keen to participate in the production of the second series.[22] In Ireland, the show will air on TG4 beginning in autumn 2013.[23]

Also known as Bron, Broen
Genre Serial crime drama, thriller
Created by Hans Rosenfeldt (no/sv)
Written by Björn Stein (sv)
Starring Sofia Helin
Kim Bodnia
Dag Malmberg
Ellen Hillingsø
Puk Scharbau (da/no)
Composer(s) Johan Söderqvist (de/sv)
Patrik Andrén
Uno Helmersson
Country of origin Sweden
Denmark
Original language(s) Swedish
Danish
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 20

Production
Executive producer(s) Stefan Baron
Klaus Bassiner
Tomas Eskilsson
Wolfgang Feindt
Tone Rønning
Producer(s) Gunnar Carlsson
Bo Ehrhardt
Anders Landström
Editor(s) Sofia Lindgren
Kristofer Nordin
Margareta Lagerqvist
Location(s) Malmö, Sweden
Copenhagen, Denmark
Running time 58 minutes
Production company(s) Nimbus Film
Filmlance International
Distributor ZDF
Broadcast
Original channel SVT1, DR1
Original run 21 September 2011 – present

External links

[http://www.dr.dk/dr1/broen
http://www.svt.se/bron Website

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