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The County
Why this pick
From Rams director Grímur Hákonarson, this is another dryly observed Icelandic rural drama, pairing stubbornness, community pressure and dark humour with an earthy, unsentimental landscape.
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MOVIE2015 1h 33m ISL
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Two sheep farming brothers haven't spoken to each other for forty years due to differences in their personalities, complicated by one brother's poor temper and alcoholism (it is implied his problems caused him to be disinherited, another source of strife between the two men), and the other brother's resentment and jealousy. They live in adjacent houses on the family farm, legally owned by the sober brother. Both are unmarried and attached to their flocks. A prize-winning ram belonging to the alcoholic brother is found to have scrapie, causing all the sheep in the whole region - even though they show no symptoms - to be destroyed as a precaution so that the disease does not spread to the entire country. The farmers must also burn all their hay and disinfect the barns.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sigurður Sigurjónsson
Gummi
Charlotte Bøving
Katrin
Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson
Bjarni
Jörundur Ragnarsson
Villi
Viktor Már Bjarnason
Finnur
Gunnar Jónsson
Grímur