Miniseries · SVT1
Caliphate
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Gizem Erdogan
Pervin
8 eps
Amed Bozan
Husam
8 eps
Aliette Opheim
Fatima Zukic
8 eps
Arvin Kananian
Nadir
8 eps
Amanda Sohrabi
Kerima
8 eps
Lancelot Ncube
Ibbe
8 eps
Albin Grenholm
Calle
8 eps
Nora Rios
Sulle
8 eps
Yussra El Abdouni
Lisha
8 eps
Simon Mezher
Suleiman
8 eps
Ala Riani
Tuba
8 eps
Monica Albornoz
Dolores
8 eps
Julia Marko-Nord
Sonja
1 eps
Maria Alm Norell
anna karin
1 eps
Ida Marianne Vassbotn Klasson
Tine
1 eps
Dennis Azad
Abu Jibril's son
1 eps
Yasmine Seifi
Ghaddah
2 eps
Ahmad Al Zoghbi
Fadi
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Caliphate actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Caliphate reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
National Security agent Fatima receives a tip that a terrorist attack against Sweden is in the planning stage. Meanwhile Sulle, a teenage girl in Stockholm, gets interested in her student assistant who opens doors to a new and fascinating world - the true path. Kalifat is a thriller about the intermingled fates of five young women who get caught up in the seducing and destroying force of religious fundamentalism.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Wilhelm BehrmanWriter
- Niklas RockströmWriter
Direction
- Goran KapetanovićDirector
Music
- Sophia ErssonOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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