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Series / Crime / 2022

CELL 8

ADAPTING A POPULAR BOOK INTO A TV SERIES IS A DARING UNDERTAKING, ESPECIALLY DEALING WITH ITS CONTROVERSIAL THEMES OF JUSTICE AND CAPITAL PUNISHMEnT.

JOHAN BRISINGER, DIRECTOR

On a cruise ship sailing between Stockholm and Helsinki, a musician named John Schwarz is detained by security guards after violently assaulting a man in the crowd during a concert. When police officers Ewert Grens and Mariana Hermansson at the Stockholm Police Department get involved with the case, they discover that not only is John living in Sweden under false identity but that he is also a man who supposedly was executed on death row in Ohio, USA ten years prior.

Facts

Writer Dennis Magnusson

Director Johan Brisinger

Main cast Mimosa Willamo, Freddie Wise, Richard Lintern, Katie Brayben, Victor McGuire, Kristoffer Kamiyasu, Leonard Terfelt 

Producers Rachel Bodros Wolgers & Karl Frederik Ulfung

Format Series (two seasons)

Genre Crime

Original Title Roslund & Hellström: Cell 8

Original Language Swedish, English, Finnish

Produced by Miso Film Sweden

International Sales Fremantle Media International