Shadow of Freedom, The

The retired Detective Superintendent, Svend Gabrielsen, commits a murder for the sake of his beloved wife. He uses his professional expertise to frame the newly released Swede, Lasse Eriksson, who thinks he is on his way to start a new and better life in the depths of the Swedish forests.

A Danish daily wrote after the first episode: “A great start. A hard-hitting detective story with a classic viciousness remorselessly maintained and intensified in this captivating, exciting, spine-chilling first episode...” Based on the novel The Man Who Stopped Smiling by Erik Otto Larsen.