Jon Mankell

Producer

September 28, 1980 (45 years)

Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden

Biography

Jon Karl Kristian Mankell, born September 28, 1980 in Norrköping's Sankt Olai parish in Östergötland County, is a Swedish film producer. Jon Mankell studied at Örebro University from 2002–2005. He was a producer at Yellow Bird 2005–2014 and has been active at Chimney since 2014. Among other things, he has worked with film productions from the Wallander series and the Millennium series. He has been a board member of Yellow Horse Film & TV AB and Palco Media AB since 2009. He is the son of the a…

Filmography

6.9

Wallander

Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.

6.6

Estonia

Estonia tells the story of the tragic accident of the car-ferry MS Estonia, which deeply shocked the world in the autumn of 1994. Through the moving personal stories of victims, survivors, loved ones and investigators, the eight-part series explores how it is possible that 852 people lost their lives and no one is held accountable.

6.4

Lamb

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

7.1

The Wife

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

7.0

Beauty and the Dogs

When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.

6.0

Beck 51 - Vilhelm

Three men enter a luxury apartment in Stockholm dressed as couriers. But what appears to be a robbery ends in a brutal murder that resembles an execution. Vilhelm Beck's patrol is the first to arrive. Haunted by his memories as a hostage, Vilhelm soon begins his own investigation into the case, which leads to a surprising contact with the Beck group.

5.0

Wallander 31 - The Arsonist

When an arsonist is released from prison, the villagers do not want him anywhere near them. Soon they take matters into their hands and Wallander has to investigate whether their fear is justified.

4.3

Wallander: The Betrayal

A young student reports her mother missing. The next day, the mother's body is found buried in the sand close to the family's house.

5.7

Wallander: The Sad Bird

When a restauranteur is abducted, Wallander's investigation leads him to suspect the Malmö police might be involved.

7.0

Beck 52 - The Invisible Man

When Alex is alerted to a brutal murder, she brings the temporarily suspended Vilhelm and her colleague Josef to the crime scene. The victim turns out to have connections to the digital university Howl, which investigates the role of men in a changing world. At the same time, the case is linked to an older investigation into the "Balcony Man", which brings Martin Beck back to the department.

5.3

Wallander: Missing

A girl disappears on her way to school, and suspicion falls on her father who has been fighting for her custody. Wallander's investigation is helped when he visits a woman whom he had arrested when her own daughter disappeared.

5.8

Wallander: The Troubled Man

Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When Linda's father-in-law mysteriously disappears, Wallander is drawn into the case that takes him back in time to the Cold War and the submarine violations in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, he's starting to suspect that something is not right with him...

5.0

Wallander: The Loss

A young woman is found dead in Ystad. When the police begin the case, they are told that the woman came from Moldova and that she worked as a prostitute in Sweden. Kurt, who leads the case, decides to seek out the woman's family in Moldova. When he returns to Sweden, he is involved in a car accident and takes a leave of absence from work. Around the same time, Kurt finds where his forgetfulness comes from.

6.0

Alice T.

Alice, a buoyant and impertinent red-hair teenager is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Being an endless source of problems and affected by the specter of her mother’s disappointments, Alice acts with her back against the wall, forging lies and blurring lines between the fiction she designs for herself and the reality of her existence. Until her mother discovers she is pregnant.

6.5

Goliath

Goliat is set in a small industrial town somewhere in Sweden. When Roland is sentenced to prison, his son, 16-year old Kimmie, is expected to provide for the family by taking over his dad's criminal business. This is a task he's not ready for. The film's depicting a boy's brutal entry into adult life and examines aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, at a time when the welfare is declining and Sweden is at change.

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#will

A teenage boy with possible self-harm behavior is allowed to use the school auditorium alone to record a video but after strange events and threats he has to gain control of both his mind and own destiny.

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