Varg Veum
Season 1
Private detective Varg Veum investigates and solves crimes and murders in Bergen, Norway.
Where to Watch Season 1
6 Episodes
- Bitter Flowers
E1Bitter FlowersA 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. - Sleeping Beauty
E2Sleeping BeautyThe 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. - Din til døden
E3Din til døden[season 1, episode 3]: "Din til døden." (original book title: "Din til døden."): A not very successful robbery against a horse racing venue and a mechanic with both a criminal record and a bad temper leads to murder, kidnapping and a stalker who does his best to be persuade his victim into becoming his girlfriend. It lasts 86 minutes. - Fallen Angels
E4Fallen AngelsA 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. - Woman in the Fridge
E5Woman in the FridgeVeum 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. - Buried Dogs
E6Buried DogsBuried 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.
