Case study
Tobias Lindholm, writer and director of Danish real-life drama Efterforskningen (The Investigation), reveals why he wanted to tell the story of the people working to solve the 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. In August 2017, Swedish journalist Kim Wall boarded a submarine to interview its owner, Danish entrepreneur and engineer Peter Madsen. When she was later reported missing after the submarine failed to return, the vessel was discovered to have sunk. Madsen was rescued at sea, but Wall was nowhere to be found. Over the next 160 days, investigators tirelessly searched for answers to what had happened to her as the story gripped the local and international media. Wall’s torso subsequently washed up on a beach, while divers later found her head, legs, arms and clothes in a stretch of water between Danish capital Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö. Madsen changed his account of what happened numerous times, at first claiming he had dropped Wall off on land before later stating that he dumped her body at sea after she died accidentally. He also claimed she died after hitting her head on the submarine hatch. But in January 2018, he was charged with murder, and in April that year he was sentenced to life in prison. Danish filmmaker Tobias Lindholm had watched the case unfold but had no interest in dramatising it for television. “I didn’t want to be part of that story and I didn’t really see the relevance of a fictionalised version,” he says. … Continue reading Case study
