Matias Varela
On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil affected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa. Exposed to deadly diseases, daily beatings and fierce repression - deprived of their shoelaces and their freedom of speech - they fought to preserve the most valuable thing of all: the freedom to determine who you are and what you believe. This is their story of 438 days of hell.
Category: Drama, Thriller
Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Matias Varela, Faysal Ahmed
Economics reporter Bea has promised herself not to mix jobs and private life, but fails to defend herself when she falls in love with the charming bank director Peder. Suddenly she gets a tip that his bank is hiding big problems.
Category: Drama
Stars: Julia Ragnarsson, Matias Varela, Julia Dufvenius
The final part of Stockholm criminal world trilogy tells about the final struggles that await everyone to get out of their sins.
Category: Crime, Thriller
Stars: Matias Varela, Joel Kinnaman, Martin Wallström
Three years later, JW gets out of prison, but soon finds himself between the contending parties of his criminal past.
Category: Action, Crime, Drama
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic
When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.
Category: Action, Crime, Drama
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic