Deadline Torp, also known as Torp-Dramaet, is a TV miniseries co-written by crime author

Jo Nesbø Jo Nesbø (; born Jon Nesbø; 29 March 1960) is a Norwegian writer, musician, economist, and former football player and reporter. More than 3 million copies of his novels had been sold in Norway as of March 2014; his work has been translated ...

based on the true events of the 1994 Torp hostage crisis. It was produced for the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the larges ...

. It tells the true story of the Torp hostage crisis that took place in

Sandefjord, Norway Sandefjord () is a city and the most populous municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality of Sandefjord was established on 1 January 1838. The municipality of Sandar was merged into Sandefjord on 1 January 1969. On 1 ...

. It began on 28 September 1994 and lasted for two days. Two men from Sweden robbed a bank in a small Norwegian town and a large police hunt was initiated. The robbers eventually took two civilians and two police officers hostages. The following morning at

Sandefjord Airport Torp Sandefjord Airport, Torp ( no, Sandefjord lufthavn, Torp; ) is an international airport located northeast of Sandefjord, Norway and south of Oslo. The airport features a runway aligned 18/36. Torp partially serves as a regional airport for Ves ...

, the hostage drama came to a deadly end when a police chief, for the first time in Norwegian history, gave an order to shoot to kill.Plassen, Pål Hovengen (November 26, 2004). “Deadline Torp med suksess” (in Norwegian Bokmål).

. Retrieved on August 30, 2021, from https://www.nrk.no/kultur/deadline-torp-med-suksess-1.2896723

References

NRK original programming 2000s Norwegian television series Jo Nesbø Norwegian crime television series Television shows set in Norway {{Norway-film-stub