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. A Swedish detective miniseries consisting of four episodes, it is the series adaptation of the book “The Breakthrough: How the Genealogist Solved the Linköping Double Murder”, 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 finally closed.
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Directed by Lisa Siwe, it stars a handful of actors well known to Swedish audiences. Mattias Nordkvist and Peter Eggers play the lead 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 Roots Crime” unleashes so much passion among Netflix subscribers, it is undoubtedly because it is inspired by a true story. In October 2004, in Sweden, Anna-Lena Svensson, a fifty-year-old, was found dead, stabbed, in Linköping. Then, 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.
