This is just the kind of stylish, Scandinavian place view-
ers would expect to see in the city, where Sarah Lund would
feel entirely at home. “She operates comfortably in this sort
of space because she represents a middle-class and affluent
Dane,” Frederiksen says.
Taking to our vintage cycles, we pedal off to the next
sight and one that all fans will recognise as the grey concrete
frontage of
Politigården
(
Copenhagen’s police headquarters).
Unlike TV shows set in mythical precincts,
The Killing
takes
place in the here and now, its real-life locations including the
city’s
Rådhuset
(
town hall); an actual school used as the set-
ting for the one Nanna Birk Larsen attends; and this working
police station, which provides a reminder of the city’s real
criminal underbelly.
“
It’s been the police headquarters since the 1920s,”
explains Frederiksen, “and we think there is something
very fascist Italy about it. I think Mussolini would have
approved.” A cold, authoritative, but beautifully ordered
building, it also has star emblems everywhere, which look
great but were designed with a dark purpose. “They used to
carry around these stars on top of sticks that they used to
bash people into submission,” Frederiksen informs us with
a good-natured chortle.
FANS ARRIVE IN RECORD NUMBERS
TO SEE THE
MOODY
LOCATIONS
01:
Previous page,
Danish actor Mikael
Birkkjær's drop dead
good looks have made
him a star
02:
Karriere is a café/
restaurant/bar where
you can eat, enjoy the
art or have an insanely
delicious cocktail
03:
Even The Little
Mermaid, one of
the city's traditional
tourist sights, has been
decapitated twice
04:
The stark-looking
police headquarters,
where windows only
open inward
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