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Also known as Jour polaire, Midnight Sun

Midnattssol (, ) is a Swedish-French police procedural series which aired for one season on Sveriges Television on 2016. As Midnight Sun, the series debuted on Australia's SBS on January 12, 2017. Anders Harnesk (Gustaf Hammarsten) and Kahina Zadi (Leïla Bekhti) are the two main protagonists. The pair investigate the death of a French national in far north Sweden, near Kiruna. It is the first in a series of mysterious, ritualistic killings. The town center is being moved as their biggest employer, an iron mining company, has worked from underneath.

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Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg. The victims seemingly have nothing in common more than that they are all being killed in a well-planned and vicious manner. In their hunt for the truth, both Kahina and Anders are forced to deal with their own past that they have repressed. A personal journey through a painful past becomes the key to succeed in preventing the violent killings that affects the small mining community of Kiruna.

Aired
2016–2016
Seasons
1 · 8 episodes
Status
Ended
Created by
Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Network
Canal+, SVT1
Genres
Drama, Crime

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Key facts

Television.image
Midnattssol-title.jpg
Television.genre
Crime
Television.creator
Måns MårlindBjörn Stein
Television.screenplay
Måns Mårlind
Television.director
Måns MårlindBjörn Stein
Television.composer
Nathaniel Méchaly
Television.country
Sweden/France
Television.num_seasons
1
Television.num_episodes
8
Television.cinematography
Erik Sohlström
Television.editor
Kristofer Nordin
Television.runtime
54 min
Television.company
Atlantique ProductionsNice Drama
Television.network
Sveriges Television

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Encyclopedic overview

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Midnattssol (, ) is a Swedish-French police procedural series which aired for one season on Sveriges Television on 2016. As Midnight Sun, the series debuted on Australia's SBS on January 12, 2017. Anders Harnesk (Gustaf Hammarsten) and Kahina Zadi (Leïla Bekhti) are the two main protagonists. The pair investigate the death of a French national in far north Sweden, near Kiruna. It is the first in a series of mysterious, ritualistic killings. The town center is being moved as their biggest employer, an iron mining company, has worked from underneath.

== Cast == Leïla Bekhti as Kahina Zadi, a Parisienne police lieutenant in the . She travels to Kiruna on secondment for a Frenchman's murder. She was raised in Marseille, but left home at age 15. She has led both local and international violent cases. Her family is from Algeria, and Kahina has a troubled past which is gradually revealed. Gustaf Hammarsten as Anders Harnesk, Luleå deputy police prosecutor of mixed Swedish-Sámi ethnic descent. He is divorced and shares custody of their daughter, Jessika. Unbeknownst to his family, he is lovers with Thor, a male pilot. Richard Ulfsäter as Thor, a helicopter pilot who assists police investigations, Anders' domestic partner. Jessica Grabowsky as Jenny-Ann, a geologist at the mining company. She is heavily pregnant and is disturbed to find that not all of the town's center had to be moved. Peter Stormare as Rutger Burlin, the Luleå chief prosecution officer, who dies mysteriously while investigating the initial murders, which leaves Anders in charge. Göran Forsmark as Sparen Andersson, the town drunk, berry picker and hermit-fisherman. His son, Johan, was brutally drowned in front of him, ten years earlier. Albin Grenholm as Kimmo Rauta, Jenny-Ann's husband, a mining foreman, and Sparen's friend. Jakob Hultcrantz Hansson as Thorndahl, a local police sergeant. Often reminds Anders of procedural matters. Karolina Furberg as Jessika Harnesk, Anders' daughter, staying with him for a month. Jeremy Corallo as Nadji, Kahina's long estranged son, who is raised by her mother as her own younger brother. He goes to Paris, and then on to Kiruna, to find out why she left him.

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