BRIDGE OF SIGHS Öresund Bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen
My first impression of Sweden was formed by Summer with Monika, an art-house film by Ingmar Bergman that captures the balmy Swedish summer and long, sun-kissed days and evenings of the Baltic coastline at its best. Discovering Sweden’s dark side, as portrayed in Nordic Noir crime fiction, only fuelled my interest. Novelist Henning Mankell set his Kurt Wallander crime stories in Skåne, the country’s southernmost region. The TV series captures the promontory beautifully, with its rolling countryside and big skies reflected in the surrounding seas. Malmö, Skåne’s capital, is the setting for many a dark deed in Wallander’s tales – and in grisly Scandinavian crime drama series The Bridge.
Tour guide Lena
PHOTOGRAPHS: JONAS NYHAV, ANDERS WIESLANDER, MIRIAM PRIES, BRIAN SWEENEY, CHRISTIAN GUSTAVSSON, DAVID MAGNUSSON, GUY DIMOND, SUSAN LOW