Crime writer Solveig Karlsdottir is pretty successful - although that's not particularly easy in Iceland. After all, with only two murders a year in the entire country, there aren't many sources of inspiration, but she makes up for this with a lot of imagination and her special feeling for things that aren't quite right. And this feeling kicks in strongly when she travels from Reykjavik to her old home village to look after her mother Margret, who is suffering from dementia. When an old friend from her youth is found dead at the harbor, she doesn't believe the official conclusion that it was an accident.
Acting
Franka Potente carries the whole damn thing on her shoulders.
Cinematography
Iceland looking moody, desolate, gorgeous — as usual.
Director
Till Endemann
Franka Potente
Solveig Karlsdóttir
Joi Johannsson
Finsen
Hildegard Schmahl
Margrét
Derek Richardson
Árni
Felix Klare
Binni
Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir
Vala
Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir
Tinna
Helgi Björnsson
Villi
Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir
Ólöf
Erlingur Gíslason
Sigurdur
Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
Leifur
Theodór Júlíusson
Bjarni
Gunnar Hansson
Jón
Arnar Dan
Elfar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Iceland famously averages 1-2 murders yearly — making this premise almost documentary-realism. The tension between cozy mystery tropes and actual statistical improbability is the whole joke.
Franka Potente learned Icelandic phonetics for the role but doesn't actually speak it — her 'Icelandic' lines were carefully coached. The dubbing debates in Germany were apparently WILD.
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