Thin Blue Line leads drama series candidates for Swedish Kristallen TV Awards

The SVT series is vying for Best drama of the year, alongside The Hunt for a Killer, HBO Nordic’s Beartown, Netflix’s Snabba Cash and Viaplay’s Thunder in My Heart.

Produced by Anagram Sweden, Thin Blue Line (Tunna blå linjen) is also scoring high in the acting categories with Oscar Töringe and Per Lasson, both competing for Best Actor in a TV production and Gizem Erdogan for Best Actress.

The realistic TV drama focusing on the daily job of police officers in Malmö was a major success on SVT when it premiered in January and steered national debates. The series’ head-writer Cilla Jackert was nominated for this year’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond-Best Nordic TV Screenplay. A second season has been ordered by SVT.

Netflix’s Snabba Cash produced by SF Studios and HBO Nordic’s Beartown produced by Filmlance International are both competing in three categories.

A smash audience and critical success, Snabba Cash was an international breakthrough show for Evin Ahmad who stars as Leya, a single mum who gets entangled in Stockholm’s criminal world while trying to get her start-up company off the ground. Ahmad is vying for Best Actress, while her co-star Alexander Abdallah who plays gang member Salim, is running for Best Actor. Based on Jens Lapidus’ best-selling novels, the series was penned by Oskar Söderlund and directed by Jesper Ganslandt, both attached to an upcoming second season produced by SF Studios with Strive Studios.

Two of Beartown (Björnstad)’s main actors, rising talent Miriam Ingrid, cast as the young 15-year-old Maya Andersson and Ulf Stenberg who plays her father Peter, trainer of the junior Beartown hockey club, are each competing in acting categories. The limited TV show directed by Peter Grönlund from Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel, premiered on HBO Nordic October 18, 2020.

Meanwhile the multi-talented singer/actress Amy Deasismont who makes her debut as showrunner on Viaplay’s Thunder in My Heart gets a nod for Best Drama series and Best Actress. “Playing Sigge was both incredibly fun and very challenging,” said Deasismont about her role. It has been very nice to work together with my teammates and the series' directors Anders Hazelius and Sanna Lenken,” she said in a statement.

The eight-part series produced by BR-F premiered on Nent Group’s streaming service May 23, 2021.

Fifth strong contender for drama of the year, Yellow Bird’s true crime drama The Hunt for a Killer directed by Mikael Marcimain has also received wide-praise in the media and international attention from global broadcasters such as the BBC and AMC’s streamer Sundance Now. The show premiered on SVT November 15, 2020.

Other strong contenders in the acting categories are seasoned actress Lotta Telje for her performance in SVT’s period dramedy Dreaming of England (Sommaren 85) produced by Anagram Sweden, and Alexej Manvelov for his role as ex-con Teddy in the crime thriller Top Dog produced by Filmlance International for C More/TV4.

In the Best Comedy category, leading humour factory FLX gets two nods for C More/TV4’s Sjölyckan 3, and Netflix’s Love & Anarchy. Other contenders are Warner Bros’ hit mini-series How to Buy a Baby (Alla utom vi) commissioned by Discovery Sweden/Kanal5 and SVT’s series Dips produced by APAB and Premiärdatum oklart produced by GKU.

In the Best Children’s programme, C More/TV4’s series Bert (FLX) and Wild Kids (Jarowskij), are competing against SVT’s The Miracle-Christmas Calendar (Jarowskij) and Kokobäng (Rafflande), as well as UR’s Djuren på Djuris (Nexiko).

In the Documentary TV programmes, Nathan Grossman’s I am Greta (BR-F/SVT), which won earlier a Guldbagge award, is vying against Johan Skog’s Catwalk (Storyfire/Viaplay), Karwan Faraj’s Gängkrigens tid (Scandinavian Content Group/TV4), Kalla fakta dokumentär: Decennium, i Assanges skugga (TV4) and Pandemin inifrån (Expressen TV).

The 17^th Kristallen Awards will take place August 27 on-site at Stockholm’s Cirkus and will be transmitted live on SVT.

Nordisk Film & TV Fond is associated to 7 Kristallen nominations for Thin Blue Line, The Hunt for a Killer, Dreaming of England and Bert.

For the full list of Kristallen nominations, check: www.kristallen.tv