The True Story Behind Netflix’s Gripping Swedish Crime Drama The Breakthrough
The drama tells the story of a cold case that went unsolved for 16 years and the arduous journey to finding the killer.
The Breakthrough: Release date, plot, cast and more about Netflix's latest Swedish crime drama
The Swedish series is based on the true-crime book The Breakthrough: How the genealogist solved the double murder in Linköping by Anna Bodin and Peter Sjölund. It follows a detective who teams up with a genealogist to uncover the mystery 16 years after it remains unsolved.
Is Netflix's The Breakthrough based on a true story?
It is indeed. According to Netflix 's Tudum, the true-crime drama is "a fictional account based on the 2004 double homicide of Mohammed Ammouri and Anna-Lena Svensson. "The murders were unsolved for 16 years, until ancestral DNA genealogy led to a break in the case."
Is The Breakthrough based on a true story? Details from Netflix's crime drama, explored
Netflix’s The Breakthrough is a gripping crime drama inspired by the real-life double murder that shocked Sweden in 2004.
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