The Breakthrough (Genombrottet) is a 2025 Swedish limited crime drama television series directed by Lisa Siwe and produced by FLX for Netflix.
It is based on a non-fiction book by journalist Anna Bodin and genealogist Peter Sjölund about how the 2004 murders of Mohammed Ammouri and Anna-Lena Svensson were finally solved in 2020 through forensic genetic genealogy.
[1][2] The four-part series is a fictionalised retelling of a 2021 non-fiction book by journalist Anna Bodin and genealogist Peter Sjölund, entitled Genombrottet: Så löste släktforskaren dubbelmordet i Linköping (The Breakthrough: How the genealogist solved the double murder in Linköping).
[3][4] The cast is led by Peter Eggers, Mattias Nordkvist, Jessica Liedberg, Jonatan Rodriguez, Karin de Frumerie and Annika Hallin.
[6] The series was reviewed positively in The Guardian, which said that it "is linear, precise, and tells the story of what happened from beginning to end, with care, and without much fuss.