Themes: Haunted By the Past, Fathers and Daughters, Drug Addiction
Main Cast: Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Atli Rafn Sigurdarson, Ólafia Hronn Jonsdottir
Release Year: 2007
Country: DE/DK/IS
Run Time: 94 minutes
MPAA Rating: NR
Plot
In 1974, a young Icelandic girl met a grim fate at the hands of a murderer -- and the crime was never solved. So begins celebrated director Baltasar Kormákur's procedural thriller Jar City (or Mýrin), adapted from Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indridason's 2000 best-seller, Tainted Blood. In the present day, the jaded and exhausted detective Erlendur (Ingvar E. Sigurdsson) begins to investigate a link between that notorious unsolved crime and the homicide of a local thug, Holberg (Thorsteinn Gunnarsson). Erlendur also struggles in his private life with an overwhelming problem: the drug addiction of his own pregnant daughter, Eva Lind (Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir). Meanwhile, Örn (Atli Rafn Sigurdarson), an employee at a DNA-mapping lab, reels from the death of his own daughter, who suffered from a brain tumor. In time, the two men's lives will intersect in a myriad of ways that neither can even begin to foresee -- and the motivation for Holberg's original crime will become resoundingly clear. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Cast
Ingvar E. Sigurdsson - Inspector Erlendur
Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir - Eva Lind
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson - Sigurdur Oli
Atli Rafn Sigurdarson - Örn
Ólafia Hronn Jonsdottir - Elinborg
Thorsteinn Gunnarsson - Holberg; Thorunn Magnea Magnusdottir - Elin; Theodor Juliusson - Ellidi; Kristbjorg Kjeld - Katrin; Thor Tulinius - pathologist; Gudmunda Eliasdottir - Theodora; Elma Lisa Gunnarsdottir - Gunnur; Jon Sigurbjornsson - Albert; Asa Hlin Svavarsdottir - statistics clerk; Rafnhildur Rosa Atladottir - Kola
A world-weary cop comes to believe a recent murder of an elderly man is linked to a case of rape three decades earlier and works to put the pieces together.
