A Danish crime series built around a chilling recurring object, The Chestnut Man pairs two detectives against a case that keeps circling back to a politician's family.

What is The Chestnut Man about?

The Chestnut Man opens on a crime scene marked by a small figure woven from chestnuts, an unsettling calling card that ties a string of violent cases together. Detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess, played respectively by Danica Ćurčić and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, are drawn into an investigation that keeps intersecting with a missing child connected to a sitting politician. Based on Søren Sveistrup's novel, the series builds its tension through procedural detail and a slow accumulation of dread rather than shock, following the two leads as they try to work out who is leaving the chestnut figures behind and why the cases keep circling back to the same family.

About the cast

Alongside Danica Ćurčić and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, the cast includes David Dencik, Iben Dorner and Lars Ranthe, filling out the detectives' colleagues, the politician's circle and figures tied to the case's past. The series is directed by Dorte Warnøe Høgh, David Sandreuter and Mikkel Serup, a shared approach that keeps its visual language and pacing consistent across the full run.

Context & significance

Released in 2021 and produced in Denmark, The Chestnut Man sits in Crime, Drama and Mystery territory, with each episode running about 50 minutes. It belongs to the wave of Scandinavian crime drama built on methodical procedure and overcast, wintry atmosphere rather than fast plotting, adapted from a bestselling source novel. The series spreads its investigation across a full season rather than resolving quickly, letting the connections between cases, and between the two detectives themselves, surface gradually as the run continues.

Watching The Chestnut Man on Ktime

K-Time offers The Chestnut Man with Persian dubbing and Farsi subtitles, so Danish dialogue is never a barrier to following the case. The series page is free to browse, and watching only requires a free K-Time account login, with the platform's Farsi interface designed for viewers who prefer a fully localized watch or the original audio paired with Farsi text.