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Mikael Marcimain.
Talk about “The Hunt for a Killer”
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After “Lasermannen”, “Up to kamp”, “Gentlemen & gangsters” and “Liberty”: now Mikael Marcimain, 50, describes the case that for years shook Sweden: the murder of Helén Nilsson, 10, at Hörby in 1989.
– The heart beats to put the magnifying glass on stories in a historical context that you recognize, he says.
New tv series Mikael Marcimain It’s called “The Hunt for a Killer.” But for the fifteen or so years that murder detectives at the center … Per-Åke Åkesson, who passed away in 2017, aged 74, and Monica olhed, played by Anders beckman Y Lotten roos – fighting to solve the seemingly unsolvable case of Helén, which upset the entire Swedish people, they are also involved in other murder cases along the way.
“It’s like with Watergate”
That the resolution to Helen’s murder is just a Google search away doesn’t worry the director.
– Yes, that’s exactly it, but there is much to discover and rediscover along the journey. It was fifteen years of investigation that were being carried out, read by installments, resumed, it was a very fight of these policemen who refused to give up. It’s like the Watergate reveal. I know how it ends, but I can still watch “All the President’s Men” as many times as I want, he says.
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From “Hunt for a Killer”.
It has become a bit of Marcimain’s specialty to make TV series and movies that take place several years back in history, but no more than many recall stories, true or fictional, such as Klas Östergrenthe filming and the time. The revolutionary series “Lasermannen” (2005), about Juan Ausonio who methodically fired at immigrants, was close to him for natural reasons.
– When it really happened, I was 20 years old. If you weren’t fair skinned and my father is from the French Caribbean, you were actually scared to go out into town. They wore hoods before. Some of the Laserman victims were in my neighborhood. So it was close for me to tell that story.
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From “Hunt for a Killer”.
“Hunt for a Killer” is based on Tobias Barkmans reportage book. Helen Lindholm, who also worked with “The Laser Man,” has been developing the story for many years. When Mikael Marcimain was removed, he first made sure that the families of the victims were informed and had given their approval. They chose not to film the actual crime scenes, but those that resembled them.
And everyone who is going to speak Scanian speaks Scanian.
– It was important to us, so that later we couldn’t be accused of the Stockholmers running around and trying to speak Scanian.
SVT demanded new faces
You basically just have unknown actors in the cast?
– It was a liberating process with SVT, they almost encouraged us to find new faces. Anders Beckman had played minor roles in things I did. A changeable and very jealous actor. Lotten Roos met the interrogator she plays. The lottery was fantastic, it fulfilled its role one hundred percent.
In addition to a crime story, the television series is also a description of class divisions, social exclusion, and misogyny.
– I like that the series is not only a crime story, but that it can also have something educational. That also illuminates certain currents in our country.
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