Published on January 8, 2025 at 11:56 a.m.
“Crime at the Roots” on Netflix – ©Netflix
Swedish mini-series released on Netflix this Tuesday, January 7, “Crime at the Root” has already become one of the most watched programs on the platform. We tell you everything.
It is one of the new films and series for the month of January 2025. Available since Tuesday, January 7, “Crime at the Root” has become, in just a few hours, among the most watched programs on the platform. Swedish detective mini-series composed of four episodes, it is the serial adaptation of the book “The Breakthrough: How the genealogist solved the double murder in Linköping”, written by Anna Bodin and Peter Sjölund. The series tells the story of a genealogist and an inspector, who try to solve a double homicide that occurred sixteen years earlier, in 2004 in Sweden. The duo is determined to shed light on this appalling crime before the case is definitively closed.
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Directed by Lisa Siwe, it is carried by a handful of actors well known to the Swedish public. Mattias Nordkvist and Peter Eggers play the main roles and are supported by Annika Hallin, Helen Al-Janabi, Baxter Renman and Lucas Grimstedt.
A mini-series inspired by a true story
If “The Crime at the Roots” unleashes so much passion among Netflix subscribers, it is undoubtedly because it is inspired by a true story. In October 2004, in Sweden, a fifty-year-old named Anna-Lena Svensson was found dead, stabbed, in Linköping. Then, the police discovered the lifeless body of an eight-year-old boy, Mohammed Ammouri. For around fifteen years, these two murders remained unsolved until the culprit’s DNA was discovered on a genealogy site.
