Anno 1790

2011 • SVT1
4.0
6 reviews
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 Between Blood and Lilacs
10/24/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. With friends gone and his worst enemy closing in, DaadhÍs world has been shaken to its foundations. Because of his courage and his ability to see patterns in seemingly unrelated events, Daadh succeeds in using the challenging circumstances to his benefit. But he's also harshly confronted by his own past and forced to bargain with those in power.
2 The Perfumed Pistol
10/31/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. A shop owner is found dead with a knife in his chest. A man has been caught red-handed, but Daadh isn't satisfied with what seems to be the obvious. He takes a different approach and reaches a surprising conclusion. One of his friends from the old days needs protection, but their meeting suddenly makes Daadh the focus of a vengeful woman's rage.
3 Fickle Woman
11/7/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. When Daadh goes to interrogate the person who printed pamphlets libeling the King, he finds the man murdered, his skull crushed in his own printing press. DaadhÍs investigation brings him in contact with a radical young French woman and with Marta Raxelius, whoÍs convinced that Daadh killed her brother and will stop at nothing to get her revenge.
4 Good Evening, Beautiful Mask!
11/14/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. A cunning burglar is wreaking havoc in Stockholm. As the panic spreads, Daadh is under pressure to apprehend the masked thief, whoÍs known to be dangerous and violent. HeÍs offered help by the renowned hypnotist Cagliostori, who happens to be performing in the city. Daadh allows himself to be hynotized, unwittingly putting his own life in danger.
5 The Wages of Sin
11/21/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. A number of children are found dead in the great piles of excrement and trash that line StockholmÍs shoreline. DaadhÍs investigation leads him to the Great Orphanage, where they claim to know nothing about the bodies. Each year, one of the orphans is chosen to carry out the drawing in the Number Lottery, a popular event where large amounts of money are in play.
6 A Toast to the Scaffold
11/28/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. A landowner is found dead in his stables, kicked to death by his horse. After Daadh determines that the accident was a murder, he has no difficulty finding people who bore grudges against the victim. Any member of the victimÍs family could have done it, but the evidence is scanty and the Police Chief is demanding that someone be found guilty.
7 The Blind Hand of Fate
12/5/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. A shop owner is found dead with a knife in his chest. A man has been caught red-handed, but Daadh isnÍt satisfied with what seems to be the obvious. He takes a different approach and reaches a surprising conclusion. One of his friends from the old days needs protection, but their meeting suddenly makes Daadh the focus of a vengeful womanÍs rage.
8 The Die is Cast
12/12/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. Daadh is invited up to Uppsala by his own professor, who needs his help finding out who poisoned one of his students. Daadh involves himself in the case and quickly realizes his own life is in danger. Meanwhile, back at the Wahlstedt home in Stockholm, subversive events take place that will affect his future.
9 The Voices of the Dead
12/19/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. A bomb explodes in a packed coffee house. DaadhÍs investigation is interrupted by an order to stop the illegal church services held by a pietistic congregation, of which Simon Freund is secretly a member. When a priest from the state church is found burned to death, Daadh suspects a link between the two murders and that the perpetrator is in close proximity.
10 A Different Kingdom
12/26/11
Season-only
Swedish with English subtitles. One of DaadhÍs old radical comrades is accused of treason and hung on the square. His body is supposed to go to Uppsala University for dissection by medical students. When the body disappears and two more murders take place, Daadh realizes that someone will kill indiscriminately to prevent him from uncovering a dangerous truth.

About this show

The Age of Enlightenment, year 1790: After returning from the battlefields of a bloody war in Finland, Swedish army surgeon Johan Gustav Daadh (pronounced "Dode") finds himself taking on the job as district police commissioner in Stockholm. Beneath his calm exterior, Daadh is as conflicted as the times; he's a closeted revolutionary torn between loyalty to the King and his progressive ideals.

Ratings and reviews

4.0
6 reviews
Lucy Perry
February 19, 2015
The volume is not working right on this. I need refund. I have no clue if it good or not.
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January 10, 2019
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