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The Black Swan

2024–2025 · 1 season

A tense, slow-burning true-crime documentary that feels like a real-life thriller, with hidden-camera footage and a growing sense of unease.

Created by
Mads Brügger
Genres
Documentary, Crime
Starring
Mads Brügger, Amira Smajic, Fasar Abrar Raja
Overview
A female lawyer with connections to much of the Danish underworld decides to break away from her old environment. She becomes a mole for a group of journalists, and with a hidden camera, she starts exposing everything from bikers to lawyers and major businesspeople.

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Created by
Mads Brügger
Genres
Documentary, Crime
Starring
Mads Brügger, Amira Smajic, Fasar Abrar Raja
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • corruption
  • deception
  • justice
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour2
Realism10
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary, crime
Created by
Mads Brügger
Starring
Mads Brügger, Amira Smajic, Fasar Abrar Raja, Nicolai Dyhr, Lise Roulund, Martin Malm, Carl Richard Christensen, Jimmy Skjoldborg
Cinematography
Kasper Rasmussen
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes
Network
TV2 Play
Country
Denmark, Norway
Languages
Danish

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