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The White Lioness is a Scandinavian co-production, but the film is far more international than the number of producing countries suggests. The film takes its starting point in South Africa, where the inhabitants speak both the Boers' language and English. The black policeman John September discovers that the right-wing nationalist John Dekker is up to something shady when Dekker contacts a black hitman, Victor Mabasha.

A murder in a Swedish province puts the policeman Kurt Wallander on the trail of the same case, but does the murder of a Swedish estate agent have anything at all to do with the South African hitman? Kurt Wallander has to go all the way to Cape Town to find the right leads, which point to the forthcoming Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo, where De Klerk and Mandela are both laureates.

It is at the very last moment that Wallander neutralises the killer, the Russian Konovalenko, whose aim was to shoot Mandela and then shoot the supposed black hitman, resulting in civil war between the black factions, so that power might eventually return to the whites.

Jesper Christensen has a leading role as the ruthless Konovalenko, who quickly disposes of the first hitman, Mabasha, who was too soft. The White Lioness is a fairly exciting terrorist thriller, but it is a little anonymous, and the policeman's private problems did not really interest me.