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Sweden’s Agatha Christie returns to big screen after 50 years

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- Sweden’s Pampas Produktion will adapt six thrillers from Maria Lang’s novels – the first, from her 1949 debut, will be theatrically released on March 8

Swedish author Maria Lang (photo) – recognised as 'Sweden’s Agatha Christie' – will return to the screen almost 50 years after one of her novels was adapted for television. Sweden’s Pampas Produktion is currently in production with six Lang features for Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 – the first, Danish director Birger Larsen’s Mördaren ljuger inte ensam (The Killer Never Lies Alone/lit), will be released theatrically in Sweden on March 8 by Svensk Filmindustri.

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“It is about the right time to film Lang’s thriller classics and catch the zeitgeist of 1950s’ Sweden,” said programme director Åsa Sjöberg, of TV4. “It is almost magic to shoot on a location with actors in wonderful costumes and stylish cars in a 1950’s decor – the result will be fabulous,” added producer Renée Axö, of Pampas Produktion.
 
Lang’s thriller debut (1949), introducing superintendant Christer Wijk, his partner Puck Ekstedt and her fiancée, Einar Burre – they followed her through almost 40 books - The Killer Never Lies Alone starring Ola Rapace, Tuva Novotny and Linus Wahlgren was filmed at Nora in northern Svealand, where Lang lived, from a script by Jonna Bolin-Cullberg and Charlotte Orwin.
 
The six features in Pampas Produktion’s package include Lang’s No More Murders (1951) and A Wreath for the Bride (1957), which have both been published in English (1967, 1966, respectively). With a Ph.D. from the University of Stockholm, Lang was a teacher and headmaster at a girls’ school, also writing opera reviews for a weekly. She died in 1991.

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