A film by Hlynur Pálmason. In Icelandic with German subtitles.

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The strugg­le bet­ween the stric­tures of reli­gi­on and our own bru­te ani­mal natu­re plays out amid the beau­tiful­ly for­bid­ding land­scapes of remo­te Iceland in this stun­ning psy­cho­lo­gi­cal epic from direc­tor Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nine­te­enth cen­tu­ry, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the peri­lous trek to Iceland’s sou­the­as­tern coast with the inten­ti­on of estab­li­shing a church. There, the arro­gant man of God finds his resol­ve tes­ted as he con­fronts the harsh ter­rain, tempt­a­ti­ons of the fle­sh, and the rea­li­ty of being an intru­der in an unf­or­gi­ving land. What unfolds is a trans­fi­xing jour­ney into the heart of colo­ni­al dark­ness attu­n­ed to both the majes­ty and ter­ri­fy­ing power of the natu­ral world.

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IS/FR/DK/SE 2022, 135 Min., islän­di­sche OmU
Regie :  Hlynur Pálmason
Kamera: Maria von Hausswolff
Schnitt: Julius Krebs Damsbo
mit: Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Jacob Hauberg Lohmann

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