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aaronourhands

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Linda is dead in real life, I just found out about this.:( A young actor no longer around, very sad.

Of course im refering to the Sweden original Wallander and not the crap remake BBC1 spewed out.
 
I agree it's very sad, I only just got into Swedish Wallander and was sad to hear that, she was very talented.

I disagree the BBC version is crap, though. I think it's also wonderfully done.
 
Yes, Johanna Sallstrom committed suicide back in 2007. She was caught up in the tsunami in 2004 and was severely traumatised by the experience and, despite counselling and a stay in a psychiatric hospital, she sadly took her own life by shooting herself in the stomach. What makes it sadder is that she had a 5 year-old daughter.

Henning Mankell, the author of the Wallander novels, but planned to write a series of novels featuring Linda Wallander. He wrote one but was so upset with Johanna's death that he has said he will never write any more books in the series. Johanna was also not replaced in the last series of 'Wallander' on Swedish TV. Her character was said to have been working elsewhere.
 
Actually, you're not referring to the original Swedish Wallander. The Swedish Wallander series with Krister Henriksson that is shown on BBC4 is, in fact, the second time Swedish TV have made a Wallander series. The original version was made from 1995-2007 and featured an actor called Rolf Lassgard as Wallander. This version has never been shown on British TV as far as I know.

The Rolf Lassgard version were adaptations of the novels by Henning Mankell, and so it is this version that the Kenneth Branagh version is a remake of. The Krister Henriksson version (2005-2006, 2009) features all new stories (except one, which was based on a novel written by Mankell since the original Lassgard series had finished).

If you get a chance to check out the original Wallander (Lassgard), do so. I prefer Henriksson over both Lassgard and Branagh however. The Swedish TV series is superb.
 
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