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Director: Mikael Marcimain

Producer: Piv Bernth, Lars Hermann

Writer: Maren Louise Käehne

Cast: Rolf Lassgard, Pernilla August, Alba August, Asta August

Genres: Drama


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Adapted from Kerstin Ekman’s international bestseller and from acclaimed Producer Piv Bernth (The Bridge, The Killing, Equinox), Blackwater is a powerful character-driven drama centred on a gripping crime story. On Midsummer’s Night in 1973, two tourists are found murdered high up in the mountains of northern Sweden, near the small town of Blackwater. For four people, the investigation that follows will shape and intertwine their lives and destinies, for better and for worse, across a twenty-year search for the truth. Told through two contrasting timelines – the lush yet exhausting days of perpetual summer sun in 1973, and the bitterly cold, gruelling days of winter darkness in 1991 – Blackwater unfolds in the spectacular landscapes of northern Sweden, an alluring yet unpredictable wilderness that enhances the plot’s ominous sense of foreboding. Twenty years later, the crimes remain unsolved which leads to one more murder...

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