Ardalan Esmaili, Olle Strand, Yasir Hassan and Yusra Warsama Star in Deliver Me

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Production of Deliver Me, a new Swedish suspense drama based on Malin Persson Giolito’s best-selling novel by the same name, recently started in Stockholm, Sweden. Today Netflix announced the cast. 

Newcomers Yasir Hassan and Olle Strand star as the two best friends and fourteen-year-old boys Billy and Dogge. Yusra Warsama will be playing Leila, Billy’s mother, and Ane Dahl Torp and Henrik Norlén star as Dogge’s parents Jill and Teo. The main cast also includes Ardalan Esmaili as local police officer Farid, Mahmut Suvakci as Sudden, Solomon Njie as Mehdi, and Abdirahman Mohamed as Tusse, Billy’s younger brother. 

Deliver Me is at once a poignant portrayal of the power of childhood friendship and a shattering depiction of what happens when a society fails to protect those that need it most. The series is directed by Anna Zackrisson (Snow Angels, The Restaurant).

"It’s a dynamic mix of new talent and experienced actors. We just started filming two weeks ago and I’m wildly impressed by all of them. They are so powerful and fearless in depicting this vulnerable story. I’m excited to do this journey with them”, says Anna Zackrisson. 

About Deliver Me

Snow falls softly over a desolate public pool. A fourteen-year-old boy lays face down in front of a swing-set as his life drains out of the gaping wound in his head. Behind him stands his best friend, a warm gun in his trembling hand.

When children commit horrible crimes, who bears responsibility? And what does it do to us all when we allow ourselves to view children as monsters? At the center of this gut-wrenching story are the lost children: those we fail to catch before they fall between the cracks – whether due to negligence, poverty, or social alienation. The single mothers, the grocer in the town square, the local cop – no one is left untouched in a society where escalating violence is taking over struggling fringe communities. 

• Writers: Alex Haridi (head writer) & Amanda Högberg

• Director: Anna Zackrisson

• Producers: Frida Asp & Fatima Varhos

• Production company: Asp Varhos

• Genre: Suspense drama

• Launch: 2024 on Netflix