Kenneth branagh stars as swedish detective kurt wallander in nine feature length dramas based on the best selling detective series by henning mankell an international publishing phenomenon. Having relocated to the swedish countryside, wallander's fresh start is crushed when the remains of a young woman are found buried in his back garden in an event in autumn. The body is at least five years old. The remains of another young woman are washed up on the shore. She was last seen boarding a ferry but did she jump or was she pushed? In the dogs of riga, the corpses of two latvian men are discovered on a life raft in ystad harbour. Covered in russian mafia tattoos, they've been tortured and brutally murdered. When wallander travels to riga in search of the killers, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption. Who can he trust? Anna westin, a childhood friend of wallander's daughter linda, goes missing shortly after visiting wallander in before the frost. Elsewhere a religious fanatic jannek langas seems to be responsible for the murder of an elderly woman whose burnt body is found in the woods. When a connection between westin and langas is found, wallander and linda fear for anna's safety. Running time 810 minutes region region 2 subtitles english release date 23 07 2012