''Tusenbröder'' is a drama TV-series on

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in three seasons, from 2002 (season 1), 2003 (season 2) and 2006 (season 3). The third installment of the series first opened on the big screen, March 10, 2006, edited together as one film, before later being shown on TV as a longer series.

Story

Season 1

The main character of the ''Tusenbröder'' series is Hoffa ( Ola Rapace), living a middle class life with his wife and children in a suburb of Stockholm. Hoffa owns a small business with his two best friends, Niklas (

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) and Hamid (

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). But business is slow and they are in debt. First they borrow money from the local mobsters, and when they can't pay them back and realize the danger of the situation they decide to rob a bank.

Season 2

Hoffa is now serving time in prison for the bank robberies. He knows that his wife Annelie (

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) is spending more and more time with the neighbor Patrick ( Magnus Krepper), and Hoffa is worried she'll leave him for Patrick. In jail Hoffa befriends Petter ( Jakob Eklund), and they developed a plan for how to escape. Once out of jail, Petter becomes mentally unstable without his medication and starts killing people. Petter is eventually taken by the police but he blames all the killings on Hoffa. Hoffa steals a small boat and heads out on the

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where the boat sinks in a storm.

Season 3

Everyone assumes Hoffa is dead and his wife remarries Patrick. But Hoffa is alive and he floats ashore in

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and is taken in by a family there. Hoffa has a relationship with the woman in the family and her husband finds out but forgives Hoffa when he saves his little daughter from drowning. Hoffa decides he wants to go back to Sweden and uses a fake passport, but the police soon find out he has resurfaced. In the meantime, the marriage of Annelie and Patrick is cracking.

Cast

* Ola Rapace as Hoffa *

as Annelie, Hoffas wife * Bisse Unger as Max, Hoffas child *

as Hamid *

as Niklas * Jacob Ericksson as Tommy * Jakob Eklund as Petter * Magnus Krepper as Patrik * Ivan Mathias Petersson as Tobias

External links

* * Swedish television soap operas 2002 Swedish television series debuts 2000s Swedish television series {{sweden-tv-prog-stub