Jar City ( Mýrin ) ( Der Tote aus Nordermoor )

Jar City (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Mýrin
Alternate Title: Der Tote aus Nordermoor
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Icelandic ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Iceland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Baltasar Kormákur

Written By:
Arnaldur Indriðason
Baltasar Kormákur

Actors:
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson ..... Erlendur
Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir ..... Eva Lind
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson ..... Sigurður Óli
Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir ..... Elínborg
Atli Rafn Sigurðsson ..... Örn
Kristbjörg Kjeld ..... Katrín
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson ..... Holberg
Theódór Júlíusson ..... Elliði
Þórunn Magnea Magnúsdóttir ..... Elín
Guðmunda Elíasdóttir ..... Theodóra
Walter Grímsson ..... Handrukkarar
Sveinn Olafur Gunnarsson ..... Lögfræðingur
Magnús Ragnarsson ..... Kola
Rafnhildur Rósa Atladótir ..... Albert
Jón Sigurbjörnsson

Synopsis:

The picture of Iceland that emerges in Baltasar Kormákur's "Jar City" is vivid and powerful but not something the country's tourist board would be likely to endorse. The landscape has its austere poetry to be sure - mountains framing the apartment blocks of Reykjavik, spits of volcanic rock jutting into a churning sea - but a fog of damp unhappiness seems to pervade every face and conversation. And yet by the end of this film, based on a popular mystery novel by Arnaldur Indridason, it is hard not to feel a certain affection for the place. Partly this is because Mr. Kormákur's fondness for Iceland and its stoical, surname-free people is evident from start to finish.

An elderly man is found murdered in his basement flat. Inspector Erlendur and his crew don't have much to go by in the investigation, but a photograph of a young girl's grave gives them a lead. They discover that many years ago the victim was accused, though not convicted, of horrible crimes. Did the old man's past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur reopens this very cold case, he follows a trail of unusual forensic evidence, uncovering secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man--with clues knit into the genetic bloodline of an entire country.

A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 12 June, 2009.

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