Kieler Street
Kieler Street (Norwegian: Kielergata) is a Norwegian ten-part television crime series, which premiered on October 18, 2018 on TV 2 and TV 2 Sumo. It was created by Stig Frode Henriksen, Jesper Sundnes and Patrik Syversen. It was directed by Syversen and Cecilie A. Mosli. The main protagonist, Jonas Schulman (Thorbjorn Harr) is a former criminal who had started a new life and new identity in the fictional small town of Slusvik. Andrea Bræin Hovig portrays his wife, Elin and Ylva Fuglerud acts as his stepdaughter, Sofie. When a friend confronts Jonas about his secret past, he  suspects blackmail, kills the friend and struggles to maintain his "normal life" façade. The series was mainly filmed in Fetsund, Ørje and Aurskog. The series was nominated for four awards ahead of Gullruten 2019: best drama series, best actor (Harr), best clip, TV drama (Erlend Mjømen Knudsen) and best sound design (Megaphon: Erling Rein and Petter Clausen). In Australia it was broadcast via SBS-TV from February 4, 2021. Plot. Jonas wants to live a quiet life in Slusvik, a small Norwegian town near the Swedish border. His wife Elin is a school teacher and her teenage daughter, Sofie, is  bored and disgruntled. Jonas' neighbour, Geir, an insurance assessor proposes a business deal – blackmail people who have something to hide. Jonas suspects Geir wants to blackmail him and snaps Geir's neck. Jonas dismembers the body and buries it in the woods. While there he loses Sofie's pet cat, Kasper. The townspeople believe Geir abandoned his wife and ran off. Flashbacks show Jonas as Stefan: a criminal, his gang robs a security van. Stefan kills the driver and then his gang leader, Cato. Later he uses the money to buy a new identity from a shady organisation, Omega. In  Slusvik Sofie has trouble with local bully Elisabeth: they fight. Meanwhile a nude teen girl's body is found in the town's sluice gate. After another fight with Elisabeth, Sofie joins the drama club to avoid expulsion from school. The drama club practices a play on the town's pioneer, Haakon. Several months later Sofie still hunts the woods for Kasper and finds a bloodied running shoe, which belongs to the dead girl. Jonas fears a thorough search could find Geir's body parts, so he digs them up to take them to a factory. Another neighbour, William, sees  Jonas and manipulates him to help interfere with local police looking into the dead girl. Marius, a national investigator, is dispatched to Slusvik to head the search for her killer. He stirs up the press and eventually focuses on William as fitting the profile of a psychopath. Jonas and William decide to divert the blame onto Adam, Sofie's drama teacher. Adam and the drama students hike to an isolated cabin for a weekend to focus on their play. Jonas had followed along and, heavily disguised, accosts Adam and accuses him of pedophilia. He warns Adam to leave the locals  girls alone. Adam is distraught and becomes increasingly withdrawn. Jonas and William decide to kill Adam but make it look like suicide. Cast. Kristoffer Joner was originally cast as Jonas but had to resign due to an injury.