Children of Nature

• Gisli Halldórsson: Geiri
• Sigríður Hagalín: Stella

Children of Nature - A Journey ( Original title: Börn náttúrunnar ). , Also children of nature - a journey or children of nature, is a film of the Icelandic director Fridrik Þór Friðriksson of 1991 he describes the return of an old farmer and his early love of the place of their childhood. The film was nominated in 1992 for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.

Action

The nearly 80 -year-old Geiri has his court in the country to give up and moves in with his daughter to Reykjavík. There he is, however, annoying and soon admitted to a nursing home, where he again meets his childhood friend Stella, with whom he grew up in the West Fjords of the island. Both feel not comfortable in the home and decide to return to their place of youth. They steal an old jeep and break into the remote and almost deserted paradise of her childhood on to die in freedom.

Criticism

Children of Nature was regarded by international and domestic critics as successful. Such was, for example, Hal Hinson of the Washington Times, almost two years after the U.S. premiere of the film at the New York New Directors and New Films Festival in Fridrik Fridriksson Þór directing an almost perfect " little poetic character study "; " A chamber piece " of " sublime beauty and feeling." The more the two protagonists would be their goal in the " rugged, beautiful landscape of Iceland " approach, the imaginative become the small film, the widely develop in the end over the simple naturalism of the early scenes addition to a fable.

Also positive were the reviews in Germany: The Berliner Morgenpost praised the film as " stroke of luck for European cinema ," while the filmdienst " the courage to self-determination and dignity to old age ," emphasized that " the flaws of a thoughtless modern civilization " is compared. Dieter Krusche praised the sober presentation " of misery and loneliness of old age without content with doing loose resignation ". By " returning to the land of childhood and the death of freedom and dignity " would go for the characters in two ways a dream come true.

Awards

The composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson 1991 Award for the film music for children of nature with the European Film Awards. The actress Sigríður Hagalín received a nomination for the price. In 1992, the film was nominated for best foreign film for an Oscar.