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Film and Series Highlights: Relationship Drama and More This Week

Three major film premieres on streaming services make up for a thin new offering at the cinema. Here are the week's films and series.

Film and Series Highlights: Relationship Drama and More This Week

Lena Olin makes a comeback on the theater stage.

Lena Olin returns to the theater stage. This fall, she will play the lead role in Strindberg's classic family drama "The Father" at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm.

Lena Olin makes a comeback on the theater stage.

The Honorary Award to Lasse Hallström

A merit list containing Abbas music videos, "My Life as a Dog" and a long Hollywood career was honored at the Guldbagge Awards. Lasse Hallström received the honorary award.

The Honorary Award to Lasse Hallström

Lena Olin wins success in inheritance dispute

Lena Olin is perhaps one of Sweden's most well-known actresses and has appeared in many Hollywood films and TV series. .

Lena Olin wins success in inheritance dispute

Johan Rabaeus reads "New Year's Bell"

It will be the actor Johan Rabaeus who reads Alfred Tennyson's "New Year's Chimes" at Skansen at the stroke of twelve, announces SVT in a press release. .

Johan Rabaeus reads "New Year's Bell"

This week's film and series – Family in dissolution

Josephine Bornebusch's film "Let Go" premieres on Netflix and Lasse Hallström is behind the new thriller "The Darkness" on SkyShowtime. Here are this week's films and series.

This week's film and series – Family in dissolution

Lena Olin: We try to work our way out of grief

She traveled to Iceland and found a kindred spirit in a tough police commissioner on the verge of collapse. It's premiere day for "The Darkness" – her husband Lasse Hallström's new Icelandic TV thriller in English.

Lena Olin: We try to work our way out of grief

Then Lasse Hallström's TV series premieres

Lasse Hallström's new TV series premieres on Sky Showtime on November 1, announces the streaming service. The English-language "The Darkness" is based on Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson's crime novels about Commissioner Hulda Hermannsdóttir, who, just before she is about to retire, becomes embroiled in a shocking murder investigation.

Then Lasse Hallström's TV series premieres