Directed by Philip Martin. With Kenneth Branagh, Sarah Smart, Sadie Shimmin, Tom Beard. Kurt Wallander is a police inspector in the Swedish town of Ystad. Shortly after he has seen a young girl kill herself by self-immolation, he is called to investigate the murder of government minister Wetterstedt. He has been scalped. Wealthy business-man Carlman is murdered in the same fashion, and a serial killer is clearly responsible. Drunken ex-journalist Lars Magnusson points Wallander ...
Not quite as BBC or even as Swedish as I might have expected. I could do an additional episode or two, but still unsure about this as a series.