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" (26/12, SVT).Amanda Jansson (Sara in "The Thin Blue Line") stars, as Karin Smirnoff's beloved debut novel becomes SVT's big Christmas effort. Jana returns to her childhood village in Västerbotten to care for her seriously injured twin brother and is forced to confront her childhood marked by violence, abuse and guilt. All four episodes will be released immediately. The series will be broadcast on SVT1 on 27/12.
"The Truth" (25/12, TV4 Play+).
A new season of Sofia Helin's crime series. The first episode aired in 2023. She plays Iris, who has fled her tormented past and become head of the police's Cold Case group in Malmö. When a body is found outside Ystad, the question arises whether the find is related to an old murder. The series will be released on TV4 on 7/1.
"Ronja the Robber's Daughter" (24/12, SVT).
The second season of the new adaptation of the Astrid Lindgren classic. The series has already been shown on Netflix.
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” (26/12, Disney+).Ethan Hawke plays a jaded freelance journalist/private investigator who snoops around solving crimes big and small in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Many have compared the series to the Coen brothers' best films.
MOVIE (premiere on 12/25 in cinemas, unless otherwise stated).
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".Widower Ingmar (Robert Gustafsson) discovers that if he turns on a rusty tap in his garden, local rainy weather is created. The film, directed by Hannes Holm, is based on a novel by Jonas Karlsson, who himself plays the divorced neighbor Burman.
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".The Swedish children's book hit by Elias and Agnes Våhlund has been turned into a lavish animated film. Newly moved-in Lisa finds a book that transforms her into the superhero Pink Mask, ready to fight the city's gangster king Wolfgang.
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".Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play two musicians who, after many years, finally become successful when they form a cover band to play Neil Diamond songs.
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".Jack Black and Paul Rudd go on a comical action adventure in the jungle where they try to hunt down a rare and dangerous snake for a film shoot.
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” (12/24, Netflix).Kate Winslet makes her directorial debut with a drama about four siblings whose mother suddenly takes a turn for the worse during Christmas. Helen Mirren plays the mother.
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” (12/26, Netflix).An acclaimed documentary about the career of award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, whose highlight was the revelation of the American military's massacre in Son My in South Vietnam in 1968.
