Sweden / SVT
When "true crime" brilliantly describes a traumatized society: meet the people who took a true story that made headlines in Sweden in the 80s and turned it into a breathtaking fiction. Interviewed by Nicola Lusuardi, the series' creative team discusses the story from which they drew their inspiration, and the complex work of fictionalizing "true crime" stories.
Based on a true story. In March 1989 in Hörby, southern Sweden, the murder of 10-year-old Helen Nilsson traumatized an entire nation. This seemingly unsolvable case remained unexplained for 15 years. On the night Helen Nilsson disappeared, around Easter, there were around twenty people in Hörby suspected of pedophilia. This is the prelude to The Hunt for a Killer, which follows the relentless investigation of Per-Åke Åkesson and Monica Olhed. These two police officers, at the head of a team that solves numerous homicide cases in southern Sweden, finally manage, against all odds, to find Helen's killer.
Original idea: Lotta Erikson, Helene Lindholm - based on the book The Hunt For a Killer by Tobias Barkman.
Screenwriters: Lotta Erikson, Helene Lindholm
Director: Mikael Marcimain
Composer: Mattias Bärjed
Production: Yellow Bird in coproduction with SVT and Film i Skåne
Producers: Helene Lindholm, Stefan Baron, Marianne Gray, Anna Croneman
Broadcaster: SVT
Distributor: Banijay Rights
With: Anders Beckman, Lotten Roos, Håkan Bengtsson, Rasmus Troedsson
Format: 6 x 45
Release date: Autumn 2020
Contact: Chris Stewart - Commercial Director, Scripted, Banijay Rights
