Rolf Börjlind

Writing

Rolf Börjlind

Born 1943-10-07 · Västra Skrävlinge, Skåne län, Sweden

Rolf Sigvard Börjlind, born October 7, 1943, in Västra Skrävlinge parish in Malmö, is a Swedish poet, actor, director, novelist, and screenwriter. Börjlind is best known for the films about the Jönsson League and the films about Martin Beck which were made in 1997–2007. Together with his wife Cilla Börjlind, he writes books about Tom Stilton and Olivia Rönning.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Älskar älskar inte poster
6.5

Maverick pilot must learn to live with disability.

Älskar älskar inte

1995

Beck 12 - The Loner poster
6.0

An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm. Suddenly a retired old man is also found dead in his own yard. Now Beck has two cases to solve and they both point in the same direction.

Beck 12 - The Loner

2002

Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy poster
6.3

A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case. All he knows is that a brutal murder has happened. But he does not know when or where. He has no body, motive or a crime scene, not a single trace. All he has is some teeth and a mysterious Internet address...

Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy

1997

Beck 23 - The Silent Scream poster
6.6

Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide. So if this is a double homicide who would do this and why? Martin Beck and his team start following the step backwards in order to figure out what has happened. With good and intensive police work they find man side trails from the main path.

Beck 23 - The Silent Scream

2007

Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar poster
6.1

A small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but there is fresh food for her. Who is she?

Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar

2006

Beck 17 - The Scorpion poster
6.0

An abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being hidden by abused woman-advocates. At the same time, Gunvald Larsson discovers a police report that his long-estranged sister has been abused. He confronts her with his knowledge but she denies it.

Beck 17 - The Scorpion

2006

Beck 11 - The Cartel poster
5.6

It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.

Beck 11 - The Cartel

2001

Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness poster
6.7

A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases.

Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness

1998

Beck 16 - The Last Witness poster
6.6

A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm. Detective Martin Beck and Gunvald Larsson are once again drawn into the darkness.

Beck 16 - The Last Witness

2002

Beck 19 - The Vulture poster
5.5

Swedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's team gets the case due to Police Chief Oberg's friendship with the man whom she dined with him the evening before he vanished. When they find out Veden was a gambler with heavy debts battling his addiction the case leads Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and freshly returned Lena Klingström into Sweden's illegal gambling scene. And Veden was planning to expose his own addiction and his party's huge financial profits from gambling in a confessional book - which his political allies got wind of via illegal data theft. With several people having an interest that Veden stays missing the team tries to find the politician and the true perpetrator while Beck is grappling privately with his ambivalent feelings about working with ex Lena again....

Beck 19 - The Vulture

2007

Beck 14 - The Advertising Man poster
6.1

A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and his colleagues but they soon discover that somebody's motivations are far more complex.

Beck 14 - The Advertising Man

2002

Beck 03 - White Nights poster
6.3

When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and moves out of the way. But on his colleagues request he returns.

Beck 03 - White Nights

1998

White Lies poster
6.8

Palle Hagman is a charming dreamer with great and dazzling powers of persuasion. His dream is to become a big star in the entertainment world. When he gets the chance to put on a variety show, he believes that the road to success is wide open. But Palle is a great optimist, and when the setbacks become too many, he is forced to resort to "white lies" to save himself and his family...

White Lies

1995

Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance poster
6.6

Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood. Martin Beck and his team must now work day and night to find out who the killers are and what they are planning to do with the explosives before it's too late. Meanwhile, Gunvald Larsson who was a close friend of one of the murdered cops is ignoring all rules in his quest for revenge.

Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance

2001

Beck 22 - The Weak Link poster
5.6

A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal.

Beck 22 - The Weak Link

2007

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca poster
5.7

Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca

1989

Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm poster
5.7

When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald Larsson of being mixed up in her murder. The dead woman was wanted internationally and a member of a group of militant eco-activists carrying out attacks around the world. Gunvald sets out on his own to find the woman's murderer, with Säpo on his heels. Martin Beck is ordered to arrest Gunvald and his loyalty to his colleague is now put to the test.

Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm

2009

Wallander: The Container Lorry poster
5.5

A semi-trailer found dumped and full of dead people leads Kurt Wallander and his team to a convent where the nuns have been assisting illegal refugees into Sweden via Poland.

Wallander: The Container Lorry

2006

Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball poster
6.3

Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood..

Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball

2002

Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face poster
5.8

A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case.

Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face

2001

Beck - The Man with the Icons poster
5.6

Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Security Agency) sees a chance of getting a Russian in the embassy deported.

Beck - The Man with the Icons

1997

Beck 13 - Sender Unknown poster
5.9

Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb.

Beck 13 - Sender Unknown

2002

The Jönsson Gang Turns Up Again poster
6.1

As always, Sickan has come up with a new plan. This time he wants to rob the IKEA furniture store. During their nightly break-in Sickan discovers that the store is used as a secret smuggling central for sending American computers to the Soviet Union. The computers are picked up by Soviet submarines sneaking into the Swedish archipelago. Naturally, it is their arch enemy Wall-Enberg who is behind all of this.

The Jönsson Gang Turns Up Again

1986

The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever poster
6.3

Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 million Swedish crowns in gold and diamonds to whoever can deliver the chip to the foreign investors. Who will grab hold of the chip, the Jönsson gang or Wall-Enberg?

The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever

1984