The Bridge (Season 1) - Swedish-Danish TV series from 2011. Detective, thriller
Production: Filmlance International, Nimbus Film, Sweden-Denmark, 2011
Directed by: Henrik Georgsson, Rumle Hammerich, Charlotte Seeling, Morgen Arnfred, Kathryn Winfeld, Lisa Sieve
Scriptwriter: Björn Stein
Starring: Sofia Helen, Kim Bodnia, Ture Linhardt, Dag Malmberg, Christian Hillborg, Magnus Krepper, Ellen Hillingsoe
Duration: 10 episodes of 45 minutes
The plot of the TV series The Bridge (season 1):
On a bridge connecting the Swedish city of Malmö with the Danish city of Copenhagen, the police discover the body of a woman dismembered in half. Because half of the woman's body was on the Swedish side of the bridge and the other half on the Danish side, detectives from both countries arrive on the scene.
It soon turned out that the deceased was a Swedish citizen. Therefore, the murder investigation was transferred to the Swedish side. However, the expertise showed that only the upper part of the body belonged to a Swedish citizen. The lower part, as it turned out later, belongs to a Danish woman who disappeared several years ago. That is why the Danish police are also involved in the investigation. They sent their detective Martin Rude to Malmö.
Together with his Swedish partner Saga Norén, Rude discovered that the killer had prepared for the case meticulously. The body of the girl he killed had been in the refrigerator for years. And it had been used specifically for this case.
The fact that the killer had managed to plant the dismembered body on a bridge with heavy traffic even at night indicated that the investigation had to deal with a professional. Someone with a police or secret service background.
After following the trail in that direction, the detectives found out The wife and daughter of Detective Jens from Copenhagen had been killed in a traffic accident on the same bridge a few years earlier. Jens believed it was a murder, not an accident, and accused his colleagues of not wanting to investigate it.
After failing to get the truth, Jens resigned from the police force and then committed suicide. It seemed that this last circumstance removed suspicion from him forever. However, the detectives had doubts about the case....
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