Varg Veum (2007)
Synopsis
Private detective Varg Veum lives, and is consulted in various criminal cases, in Bergen on the west coast of Norway.
First Air Date: 2007-09-08
Last Air Date: 2012-03-30
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 12
Top Cast
- Trond Espen Seim as Varg Veum
- Bjørn Floberg as Hamre
- Øyvind Gran as Trygve
- Kathrine Fagerland as Anna Keilhaug
- Endre Hellestveit as Isachsen
- Trine Wiggen as Vibeke Farang
- Martine Johansen as Torill / Eva Beate
- Lene Nystrøm as Karin
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Kniven
- Petronella Barker as Sidsel
Seasons
None (2007)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Bitter Flowers
A successful female politician hires private-detective Varg Veum. She wants him to find her missing daughter without attracting attention. During his investigation Veum becomes aware of an international company and its dealings with corruption, black-business, and murder.
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Ep. 2: Sleeping Beauty
The second of the Varg Veum movies based on Gunnar Staalesen's Norwegian crime novels. The movie develops Veum's character a bit further (by exposing him to corpses, middle-class families, and gangsters), plus the girlfriend he established a bit of a relationship with at the end of the first film reappears. The relationship between Veum and a senior cop is also developed a bit further, extending their antipathy to new levels. Sleeping Beauty's plot includes murder, incest, pedophilia, drugs, runaways, child prostitution, sex among neighbors, homosexuality (considered by a teenager's father to be worse than his drug abuse), insider trading, organized crime, police stakeouts, attempted matricide, and a pair of broken marriages.
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Ep. 3: Din til døden
Din til døden There has been no shortage of women in private investigator Varg Veum's life, but not for the long haul. When the search for her estranged husband Jonas's car brings Varg together with Wenche Andresen, he believes he may have found the one. But there's a problem; Jonas ends up dead, and Wenche is the cops' prime suspect. Varg can't believe this beautiful woman with her old fashioned ideas on love and fidelity can possibly be guilty, and he sets out to crack the
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Ep. 4: Fallen Angels
A serial killer is targeting the members of a band called The Guardian Angels. The second of his victims is Rebecca, wife of the band's lead singer Jakob Aasen. Jakob has hired private investigator Varg Veum to spy on Rebecca, whom he suspects of infidelity. Against his better judgement Varg takes on the job, and in an ironic twist he and Rebecca rekindle their former love and sleep together. In a race against time, a doubly compromised Varg strives to halt the killer before he strikes again - and in the process uncovers the dark secret behind the killings.
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Ep. 5: Woman in the Fridge
Veum is on a case of a missing employee (Arne) for an international oil drilling company. When he checks Arne's flat he discovers a woman's torso in the fridge. He is attacked and knocked unconscious. When he wakes up the police are on the scene but the limbless body is gone.
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Ep. 6: Buried Dogs
Buried Dogs (Begravde Hunder) is the sixth film in the Varg Veum series. Racial tension is running high in Bergen after a young black asylum seeker dies at the hands of the police. Shortly afterwards, a right-wing politician is targeted by a gunman at a public rally, and his wife is fatally wounded. The Party is about to hold a leadership election. One of the candidates, Marit Holm, comes to private investigator Varg Veum, insisting she is being stalked. Varg is drawn into a web of conspiracy and betrayal at the heart of the political establishment, in which spin doctors and political players will do anything to achieve their ends.
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