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The Silence
Why this pick
Like Jar City, this is a bleak, patient investigation where a present-day murder reopens an old wound, with grim landscapes and accumulating evidence driving the tension.
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MOVIE2006 1h 33m ISL
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A world-weary cop comes to believe a recent murder of a middle-aged man is linked to a case of possible rape three decades earlier by a group of friends and a corrupt cop. Working through, he finds it linked to neurofibromatosis, a rare disease among Nordics. One thing leads to another and he puts the pieces together. A geneticist father loses his child to neurofibromatosis and his search for answers leads to his degenerate father and unravels many missing person cases during the decade.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson
Holberg
Magnús Ragnarsson
Lögfræðingur
Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir
Eva Lind
Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir
Elínborg
Atli Rafn Sigurðsson
Örn
Kristbjörg Kjeld
Katrín
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
Erlendur
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Sigurður Óli