Adam Nordén

Adam Nordén

Nacimiento : 1971-04-22, Stockholm, Sweden

Historia

Born in Stockholm in 1971, Adam began his musical career while still in his teens, playing keyboards in various local jazz and pop groups. During the last 15 years, he has enjoyed a diverse career working in all kinds of genres and media, composing music for feature films and television series as well as theatre and commercials. Adam is a member of the European Film Academy and he was nominated as Discovery Of The Year at the 2001 World Soundtrack Awards. In January 2006 he received the Swedish Film Institutes Guldbagge for his score to Josef Fares critically acclaimed movie 'Zozo'. During 2017 & 2018 Adam has been busy composing for SVTs success series 'Vår Tid Är Nu' as well as Viaplay drama 'Advokaten', created by Jens Lapidus. He has also worked on four episodes of the immensely popular series 'Beck'. Among Adam's international credits we find the Dutch 'The Accused' (Hollands Oscar submission 2014), directed by Paula van der Oeste, Finnish drama-comedy 'Forbidden fruit', directed by Dome Karukoski, as well as the German TV movies "Die Lüge/Bella Block/Unter Anderen Umständen" (ZDF). Among his Swedish work, we find the Emmy nominated 'Ramona' (Harald Hamrell) and the world-renowned author Henning Mankell's popular character 'Wallander', as well as the movie 'Varg' featuring Peter Stormare, directed by Daniel Alfredson. Adam has also collaborated with Swedish action hero Dolph Lundgren on his films 'The Defender & Command Performance'. In 2015 Adam created the score for both 'Welcome to Sweden' (TV4 & NBC, directed by Greg Poehler) as well as 'The Hundred Code', created & directed by Oscar-winning writer/director Bobby Moresco.

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Adam Nordén

Películas

Beck 46 - The Crying Police
Original Music Composer
The police receive massive criticism after a 14-year-old boy was shot to death.
Beck 45 - 58 Minutes
Original Music Composer
Alex Beijer will be on morning TV where the entrepreneur Tomas Tormalm will also participate. But in the middle of a live broadcast, an armed man appears and threatens Tormalm and suddenly everyone in the TV studio is drawn into a hostage drama. For the Beck group, a fight against the clock is now beginning to free the hostages, where one of their own is included. Beck - 58 minutes is the 45th film in the series with Peter Haber.
Beck 44 - Rage Room
Original Music Composer
A man is found brutally murdered at a running track in the woods. At the same time, Josef resumes the relationship with a former girlfriend from school, Cissi, whose father recently died of a sudden heart attack during a robbery. Josef goes against Alex's directive and begins an unofficial investigation into Cissi's father's death, which puts him in a complicated conflict situation.
Tills solen går upp
Original Music Composer
Peder runs into his ex-girlfriend Hanna one day. They´re happily married with new partners but although many years has passed Peder and Hanna are still attracted to each other. However, they don´t want to jeopardize their marriages or cheat. One day they come across an antique book about dreams. With the help of the book, they manage to enter a dream world where they can live together in a life where anything is possible, while living their normal lives during the day. But soon enough it becomes hard to separate the dream world from reality.
Beck 43 - A New Life
Original Music Composer
A body is found in the water near Liljeholmen. The body belongs to a 39-year-old Danish citizen with a solid criminal record and who was a member of a notorious Danish drug gang. Should the Beck Group get a gang war on their necks? Martin Beck is back to the joy of the entire Beck group. Martin's daughter Inger is not as happy but has to accept her father's decision to start working again.
The Prodigal Son
Music
A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out that it has just recently been moved and belongs to Viktor Eklund, who has been missing for five years.
Beck 41 - Death in Samarra
Music
A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just after a meeting with two lawyers from the war tribunal in The Hague. One of the witnesses worked with Alex when she was in the Middle East.
Beck 40 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Music
During a police intervention, a macabre discovery is made in the trunk of a car. Josef and Oskar find themselves in the line of fire of a seemingly cold-blooded killer. But things are not what they seem.
Beck 39 - Undercover
Music
A young gang member is found dead, and the Beck group's investigation indicates that a drug network is behind it. Klas Fredén has been monitoring the network for a long time, and the Beck group - led by Alex Beijer - is most graciously allowed to work with the murder investigation in parallel. She will soon end up on a collision course with Fredén. Thus, Martin Beck, who is now head of department, is also involved in the case.
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Music
The story of two brothers and their musical family, forced to confront their secrets over an intense Christmas break.
Beck 36 - The Thin Ice
Original Music Composer
Simon Lindström, the popular coach of a suburban junior hockey team is found stabbed to death. Does the murder have something to do with his side project: teaching unaccompanied refugee children to ice skate? This undertaking has certainly not been appreciated by everyone in their small, sheltered community. Martin Beck, who has returned in a more senior position, struggles to find a replacement for the temporary head of the group, Steinar Hovland. But the Norwegian is becoming more and more interested in keeping his new role. The question is whether Martin can trust him?
Beck 35 - Flesh & Blood
Original Music Composer
A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home from work. These two events will prove to be related. Since Martin Beck has quit, Steinar Hovland leads the search for the missing girl. But Martin is drawn into the case when he decides to help the national Security Police investigate a suspected terrorist. They soon realize that they are in a race against time to stop a catastrophe.
Beck: The Last Day
Original Music Composer
Two traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding. When the car finally pulls over, the driver gets out and shoots at them, killing one of the officers in cold blood. A national alert is issued and an extensive search for the ruthless killer begins, with the Beck group at the lead. Neither the officer’s shocked and wounded colleague nor any of the witnesses have seen anything helpful to the police. Finally, they find the car registration number using a surveillance camera. But, when they enter the car owner’s apartment, they find him shot to death. The first day of summer is a long one for the Beck group, as the killer has more victims on his list.
Beck 33 - End of the Road
Original Music Composer
Three brutal murders are committed in a house in a quiet suburb. The victims are a former police officer, his wife and their 10 year old son. The Beck group takes on the case and find that there is a hidden security room in the victims’ house, containing stolen weapons. They find fingerprints from a criminal who was involved in a robbery 4 years ago. After the robbery, he shot his accomplices and disappeared without a trace, along with their haul of 6.3 million. The question is how the former police officer ended up with the weapons and how is he connected to the thieves? The case wakes strong feelings at Police Headquarters and takes highest priority.
Beck 32 - Steinar
Original Music Composer
An unidentified body is found in the remains left after a fire in a trailer at a run-down caravan park. The owner of the trailer, a young drug-addicted woman, is missing, but is she really the victim? And what role has the so-called neighbourhood watch from the nearby community played? The case is difficult to solve, with everyone involved guarding their secrets, regardless of social class. Furthermore, police supervisor Klas Fredén decides to go over Martin Beck’s head and recruit charismatic, Norwegian homicide investigator, Steinar Hovland. The newly-structured Beck group faces the blight of a power struggle. And Martin struggles to find his way back to his old self.
Beck 31 - Gunvald
Music
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victim’s work with a book about “society’s dark side” that captures the Beck group’s interest. When the case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, there is suddenly much more at stake than finding the journalist’s killer. Martin Beck and his colleagues have never had to protect the balance of their professional and private lives with the same tenacity as they do now.
Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders
Original Music Composer
An elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm and it turns out that she suffered from an incurable disease. Her son refuses to believe that it was the disease that was the primary cause of her death.
Beck 29 - Invasion
Original Music Composer
The bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be identified. When another man is murdered they discover new evidence that soon leads them to an Islamist terrorist cell.
Beck 28 - The Family
Original Music Composer
When a well-known crime boss is murdered by a sniper in front of his family, Beck and his team are challenged to discover which one of his many enemies could be responsible for the crime.
Beck 27 - Room 302
Original Music Composer
The body of a young woman is found in a Stockholm hotel room. It appears that she has been strangled after a night partying with two young men, but the room was paid for using the credit card of a mugging victim whose alibi doesn't add up. Martin and Gunvald investigate under the supervision of their new boss Klas Freden.
Los Andersson en la nieve
Original Music Composer
Esta ocasión sitúa a la familia en las montañas por un capricho de Sune. Su amada Sophie se va a esquiar con un atlético y apuesto compañero de clase, así que Sune convence a toda la familia para seguir a la chica, a pesar de que no puedan permitirse un viaje de ese tipo y, además, no saben esquiar. Una vez allí, las dos familias deberán compartir cabaña, y no será fácil, mientras que Sune solamente tendrá en mente un objetivo: ¡recuperar a Sophie!
Los Andersson: Road Movie
Music
Rudolf se entera por casualidad de que una pintura del artista Bengt Johansson, que él y Karin consiguieron en su luna de miel, tiene un valor superior a 900.000 coronas. Sólo hay un problema: el artista no la firmó. Es por eso que Rudolf decide llevar por carretera a toda su familia de regreso a la aldea en la que encontraron la pintura, situada en el Sur del Tirol. Así, el artista podrá firmarla fácilmente y ¡se harán ricos!
It's All About Friends
Original Music Composer
A drama-comedy about Max, a successful New York-based commercial cinematographer, who is disillusioned and alone. He has a very low opinion of love, romance and emotions. One day Max is contacted by his old childhood friend Peter, who invites him to come to a small Swedish city Hudiksvall and help him make a film about his daughter's friends.
Los Andersson en Grecia
Original Music Composer
Como cada verano, la familia Andersson se va de vacaciones a Myggträsk, una pequeña isla cerca de donde viven en Suecia, a bordo de una caravana. Pero tanto Karin, la madre, como sus tres hijos, Sune, Håkan Bråkan y Anna, no soportan más las vacaciones en ese lugar. Un día, Rudolf, padre de la familia, asesor fiscal, recibe de su jefe la oportunidad de asistir a un congreso en Grecia. Animado por estas circunstancias, Rudolf decide llevarse a su familia de vacaciones a Grecia. Y con un "todo incluido". Pero un golpe de mala suerte echa para atrás los planes de Rudolf por agradar a su familia, que están expectantes con el nuevo viaje, porque es su jefe quien finalmente asistirá al congreso. Así pues, y para no decepcionar a su familia, Rudolf sigue adelante con el plan establecido y reúne el dinero suficiente para pagar el viaje. Una vez allí, la familia se embarcará en una aventura llena de sorpresas.
Odjuret
Music
A man takes law into his own hands after the search for his daughter's murderer and rapist fails and instead the police go after him.
Annika Bengzton: Studio Sex
Original Music Composer
Annika Bengtzon está trabajando en el periódico Kvällspressen. Mientras rastrea llamadas telefónicas en broma con la esperanza de encontrar una noticia interesante, recibe un mensaje anónimo sobre el cadáver desnudo de una joven en un parque. La chica ha sido violada y asesinada. Annika aporta una historia fuerte que le vale el apoyo de su jefe. A medida que la trama se desarrolla, el foco de la investigación cambia del amante de la víctima -el dueño de la casa de citas en la que ella trabajaba- a un importante ministro del gobierno que tiene un departamento secreto cerca del parque.
Annika Bengzton: Prime Time
Original Music Composer
En la noche más corta del año diez personas se encuentran en un castillo desierto para realizar una filmación televisiva. La primera mañana, la conductora del programa aparece asesinada. La reportera Annika Bengtzon se introduce en la investigación, y pronto se entera de que uno de los sospechosos es su mejor amiga. A medida que la policía va liberando a todos los sospechosos, excepto a su amiga, Bengtzon decide hacer todo lo posible por demostrar su inocencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
An Enemy to Die For
Music
Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension between their countries soon affects their work. With Britain and France declaring war on Germany, the civilian scientists now find themselves mere pawns in a global power struggle.
Annika Bengtzon: Nobel's Last Will
Original Music Composer
Annika Bengtzon asiste al baile de gala de la entrega de los premios Nobel y allí, en medio de la flor y nata de Suecia y de todo el mundo, presencia un asesinato que parece un atentado político. La periodista empieza a adentrarse en el entorno de los Nobel y descubre un mundo lleno de intereses donde se juega muy sucio. Pero, después del primer asesinato vendrán unos cuantos más, todos relacionados con los premios Nobel. Adaptación a la gran pantalla de una novela de Liza Marklund: Nobel’s Last Will, dirigida por Peter Flinth para la productora de Millenium, Yellow Bird Production. Malin Crépin interpreta a la reportera Annika Bengtzon tanto en esta película, cuyo estreno en Suecia tendrá lugar el 2 de marzo de 2012, como en las cinco entregas que la seguirán para DVD y televisión. (FILMAFFINITY)
Forbidden Fruit
Original Music Composer
Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
Ataque terrorista
Music
Un concierto benéfico en Moscú se vuelve sangriento cuando terroristas armados toman como rehenes al Presidente de Rusia, a sus dos hijas y a la pop-star Venus. Pero la ayuda de Joe, batería de un grupo de rock, junto a un agente de seguridad federal ruso, está en camino. Nuestros hérores están claramente superados en número, y además las cosas no son tan simples como parecen cuando los fantasmas de la vieja Unión Soviética vienen a perturbar el presente...
House of Fools
Original Music Composer
At the psychiatric clinic Varden the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane.
Wolf
Original Music Composer
A story from the wilderness, where conditions of survival challenge the rules of modern society, Wolf is a contemporary drama set in northern Scandinavia. Klemens (Peter Stormare) and Nejla (Robin Lundberg) own a small herd of reindeer. Klemens lives in tune with nature and according to the rhythm dictated by his work. His young nephew, Nejla admires him and wants to follow in his footsteps. But neither his mother nor society will allow that to happen. The herd is attacked and they react without regard for the law. A well aimed stroke of the axe puts relationships to the test. What are the consequences and who will take the blame?
Bitter Sweetheart
Original Music Composer
Bitter Sweetheart is the naked truth about Lina Berglund, a perfectly normal 15 year old who tries to start living like her friends who seem to have so much fun.
Wallander 13 - The Secret
Original Music Composer
11-year-old Johannes is found raped and murdered. Investigations lead to a pedophile ring and detective Stefan Lindman's dark secret.
Wallander 12 - The Forger
Original Music Composer
When a woman is murdered outside her restaurant in front of her eight-year-old daughter, Wallander and his team link the death to a restaurant mafia.
Wallander 11 - The Black King
Original Music Composer
Following an argument with her lover on her boat, a woman is found dead. Wallander and the Ystad police investigate; their inquiries lead them to a farm commune and to an old friend of Linda's.
Wallander 10 - The Castle Ruins
Original Music Composer
Kurt Wallander and the team are stumped when they find an old man, Greger Stehn, dead due to poisoning. It appears that Stehn, who looked like a vagrant, was in fact very wealthy.
Wallander 09 - The Container Lorry
Original Music Composer
A semi-trailer found dumped and full of dead people leads Kurt Wallander and his team to a convent where the nuns have been assisting illegal refugees into Sweden via Poland.
Every Other Week
Music
Pontus is divorced and has custody of his children every other week while living life as a bachelor the rest of the time. His older brother, Jens, is married since 20 years and has three children. When Jens' marriage collapses, he moves in with his younger brother - a move which will change both of their lives radically.
Wallander 08 - The Photographer
Original Music Composer
When an American tourist is found murdered after visiting an internationally renowned photographer, her husband believes she was having an affair. Kurt Wallander decides to investigate.
Inspector Wallander: El punto débil
Original Music Composer
Un agricultor es encontrado muerto, y casi todo demuestra que fue pateado por un caballo. Sin embargo, la autopsia demuestra todo lo contrario: había sido golpeado hasta la muerte....
Wallander 07 - Mastermind
Original Music Composer
Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder that took place in Ystad and the kidnapping of one of the police force's daughters. It also seems someone has infiltrated the police and controls every move the police make.
Wallander 05 - The African
Original Music Composer
Kurt Wallander receives a murder case from the Polish police, it turns out that the victim was shot dead on board a train in Sweden. Most of his face is shot away and for Wallander personally the case gets an unexpected turn. His two closest police colleagues are the daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.
Wallander 04 - The Overdose
Original Music Composer
Krister Henriksson plays the lead role as Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed Commissioner Kurt Wallander at the Ystad Police. After a girl's suicide, they come across a tangle on the track that affects several girls at the same school, a case that deeply affects Linda Wallander. Linda's closest colleague is Detective Stefan Lindman.
Los hermanos
Original Music Composer
Olof y Carlina Wrangel son encontrados muertos en su casa . La esposa fue torturada y violada delante de su marido antes de que ambos fueran asesinados.
Zozo
Original Music Composer
A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
Wallander 02 - The Village Idiot
Original Music Composer
In the second film with Krister Henriksson as Kurt Wallander, a man enters a bank and threatens to blow it up in the air unless his demands are met. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner has the assistance of daughter Linda, newly graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman.
Wallander 01 - Before The Frost
Original Music Composer
A fanatical sect is suspected to be behind some horrific violent crimes in Ystad. Henning Mankell's sharp-eyed commissioner receives assistance from her daughter Linda, a newly-graduated police officer, and criminal inspector Stefan Lindman. The first of 32 films with Krister Henriksson as the popular commissioner Kurt Wallander.
El Protector
Music Producer
Los Estados Unidos no van a ceder ni un palmo en su guerra contra el terrorismo, de manera especial contra Mohamed Jamar, el peor de todos. Y aunque, el presidente busca, una solución definitiva, Jamar representa toda una paradoja: no puede matarle porque al momento se convertiría en una leyenda; no pueden capturarle y juzgarle, porque le harían un mártir que provocaría más actos terroristas.
El Protector
Original Music Composer
Los Estados Unidos no van a ceder ni un palmo en su guerra contra el terrorismo, de manera especial contra Mohamed Jamar, el peor de todos. Y aunque, el presidente busca, una solución definitiva, Jamar representa toda una paradoja: no puede matarle porque al momento se convertiría en una leyenda; no pueden capturarle y juzgarle, porque le harían un mártir que provocaría más actos terroristas.
Corrupción al límite
Music
A Gannon Franco, un agente de las Fuerzas Especiales, le ordena su comandante que mantenga la boca cerrada respecto a los negocios corruptos de algunos de sus compañeros. Cuando Gannon rechaza la orden y decide contarle la verdad al FBI, los policías implicados en casos de corrupción intentan matarlo. Después de ser rescatado por un compañero, Gannon deberá lavar su imagen y demostrar su inocencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Illusive Tracks
Original Music Composer
Christmas 1945. In a train from Stockholm to Berlin are a motley collection. It is the failure of the author Gunnar who wants to leave his old life and make a contribution in Berlin; physician Henry who plan to marry Marie and likewise Henry's current wife Karin, who he plans to kill during the journey, the middle-aged gay couple Pompe and Sixten, a soldier going to Uppsala but is on the wrong train: the cheerful and cynical old Margaret, and a dressed elf and a surly conductor. With the train are also a number of Baltic refugees accompanied by two nuns to be sent to Germany.
Bit by Bit
Original Music Composer
The story of J whose goal is to be world master at playing Nintendo. He struggles with his traditional Jewish family and non-Jewish girlfriend who demand that he grow up and get a job. Real problems arise when he awakes to discover that his right hand is missing.
Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball
Original Music Composer
Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood..
Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
Original Music Composer
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb.
Beck 12 - The Loner
Original Music Composer
An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm. Suddenly a retired old man is also found dead in his own yard. Now Beck has two cases to solve and they both point in the same direction.
Beck 11 - The Cartel
Original Music Composer
It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.
Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face
Original Music Composer
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case.
Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance
Original Music Composer
Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood. Martin Beck and his team must now work day and night to find out who the killers are and what they are planning to do with the explosives before it's too late. Meanwhile, Gunvald Larsson who was a close friend of one of the murdered cops is ignoring all rules in his quest for revenge.
A Witch in the Family
Original Music Composer
Maria is 8 years old and thinks her younger brother is really annoying. She meets Makka in the neighborhood who has a magic ball. In some way Maria wishes her brother away. When the babysitter Gerda turns up Maria and Makka think she's the answer to Maria's wish - a witch that has come to abduct her brother. Maria who deeply regrets her wish must now do everything in her power to stop Gerda.