DNA (Danish TV series)

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Also known asKidnapping
GenreDrama, police procedural
Created byTorleif Hoppe [da]
Written byTorleif Hoppe, Nanna Westh
DNA
Also known asKidnapping
GenreDrama, police procedural
Created byTorleif Hoppe [da]
Written byTorleif Hoppe, Nanna Westh
Directed by
  • Kasper Gaardsøe
  • Henrik Ruben Genz
  • Fabian Wullenweber
Starring
Original languages
  • Danish
  • French
  • English
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes14

DNA, or Kidnapping, is a Danish television police procedural drama, which was broadcast from 9 September 2019. It was created by Torleif Hoppe [da],[1] who is the principal scriptwriter with five episodes of season one co-written by Nanna Westh. It was directed by Kasper Gaardsøe and Henrik Ruben Genz (both 2019) and Fabian Wullenweber (2022–2023). The main protagonist, Rolf (Anders W. Berthelsen) is a police officer, he is joined by French-based investigator, Claire (Charlotte Rampling).[1][2] Season one has Rolf's daughter disappearing during a ferry trip. Five years later, Rolf learns of flaws in the police's DNA database and, while investigating another kidnapping, determines to find his missing daughter. He works with policewoman Neel (Olivia Joof Lewerissa).[3] Meanwhile, action flashes back to five years earlier when unmarried Polish teenager Julita (Zofia Wichlacz) has her daughter, Hania at a convent. Julita's told Hania died, however, Julita trails baby traffickers and recovers an infant girl, who she raises as her own in France. Season two was broadcast from 18 December 2022 with Berthelsen, Wichlacz, Rampling and Lewerissa reprising their roles.[4]

Season one. Rolf hunts a child, Minna, who's been kidnapped. As his wife, Maria is away in London, Rolf brings his daughter Andrea onto a ferry to travel to a witness in Poland. While on-board, Andrea, is herself kidnapped but fellow police determine she was washed overboard. Earlier, in Poland, young mother Julita had given birth to a daughter, who is stolen by nuns, who claim she died in childbirth. Her child is sold to baby traffickers, Melanie and Oliver, working for adoption agaency Bliss. Julita trails them to Denmark. She sees Rolf collecting Andrea's pram from colleague Jarl and his wife Ewa. On the ferry, Julita grabs Andrea believing she's her daughter, Hania.

Five years later, Neel catches serial rapist-murderer "Tranum Man", however his DNA is not on the police database. Rolf alerts Jarl to the problem. Jarl resolves an undiscovered systemic error. Rolf re-tests samples from Minna's case, which provides DNA link to a recent corpse, Victoria, found in France. Claire joins Rolf, Neel, Jarl and IT specialist, Staahl in re-opening Minna's case. Eventually police discover Bliss has a connection with a youth care centre run by Bror, who also arranges his foster daughters to become surrogate mothers. Melanie's sister Victoria had argued with Oliver about handing over a baby. Oliver claims Victoria was accidentally killed. Melanie recalls that Julita's daughter had died of SIDS, so Oliver kidnapped Minna. Rolf, Claire and team find Minna, who was put up for adoption and reunite her with her mother however it goes poorly as she has no memory of her real mother and doesn’t want to be separated from her adoptive parents.Rolf and Neel discover that Jarl’s wife Eva is secretly the leader of Bliss and it was Jarl himself who caused the systemic error in order to hide her involvement. At the end, Rolf trails Julita to France, where she's raised Hania. He meets them, posing as a fellow school parent. Recalling how badly Minna took it and not wanting the same to happen for Andrea/Hania, Rolf resolves not to separate Julita and Hania.

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