MURDERER ON A WHITE HORSE

Documentary special
60’ (2016)

A portrait of Mariann Poulsen and a critical review of the public sensation of a tabloid scoop: She had married notorious murderer Peter Lundin while her clueless boyfriend and father of her child waited at home.

As a teenager, Mariann had a long-standing romantic pen pal in Peter Lundin. He had killed his mother, a girlfriend and her two young sons before being sentenced to life in prison. The romantic correspondence began when Mariann was 14, was found out and brought to an end when she was 17.

But when she moved to Copenhagen with her boyfriend Brandur to study, Mariann decided to go and meet Peter Lundin, still in prison. After a years-long affair, they were married in secret.

Or so she thought.

On the day of the wedding, Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet had paparazzi in place. The next morning, Mariann was on the front page and her world came tumbling down.

Streaming on DRTV (in Danish, no subtitles)

Review: "Murderer on a White Horse shows us the dark sides of the mind"

Winner 2018
Best crime