The Sea (2002 film)

• Gunnar Eyjólfsson: Thordur
• Hilmir Snær Guðnason: Ágúst
• Hélène de Fougerolles: Françoise
• Kristbjörg Kjeld: Kristín
• Sven Nordin: Morten
• Guðrún Gísladóttir: Ragnheidur

The cold lake ( Icelandic Original Title: Hafid ) is an Icelandic film director and actor Baltasar Kormákur. Against the background of a family tragedy, the story sheds light on the social and economic changes in the country and the difficulties of the younger generation in Iceland, to identify with their home and their very own living conditions.

Action

The old Thordur, patriarch and owner of a fishing operation, calls his three children to him to clarify his successor. The Paris Ágúst, who arrives with his pregnant girlfriend, has no interest in the operation and prefers to deal with his music than with the economic study for which he originally went to Paris. The eldest son Haraldur who works in operation, looks around for a potential buyer and daughter Ragnheidur already considering what to buy with the proceeds of sale. Thordur refuses to accept the lack of interest of the children and tells them to fight. It 's not just about the future of the company, but also about uncovering the past in the past, family secrets.

Reviews

• " ... The family drama is constructed so predictable, the conflict perceived as lacking in individuality that the characters have to throw platitudes to the head ( We were never good enough for you ', cries Agust to his father, and what the phrases more are ). At most, they may mimic break out of the concept, which seems rather to provide roles as individuals ( and about the big family secret, which is then uncovered, makes it look so überraschungsarm like most passages of the film). "(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
• " Removes could remember The Sea ' to large family dramas in the style of Visconti. But the material and especially the presentation press the level. The biasing the zerschnippelnden cuts promised excitement. Just as it comes. At distance the director is little interest. Woodcut -like figures replace the announced, character studies '. " ( Tagesspiegel)
• "Even if the director tries to counteract these Nordic fury with black-humored notes from the province - the cold lake ', which is also the blood of the protagonists. That every second Icelander has seen this movie and The Sea ' there is the most successful domestic film of all time is -. Afterwards, everyone should finally make his own rhyme " (The World )

Awards

The Sea is the most successful film in the country. He won eight Eddas ( Islands national film award ) and was nominated for four more Eddas. On the International Istanbul Film Festival, the film a FIPRESCI Prize for his " close observation of the social and cultural wounds of a crumbling family that is faced with globalization, " won the 2003; and the Norwegian Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival 2003, he was honored with the Audience Award Tromsø Audience Award.

General

Scene of the ostisländische settlement Neskaupstaður. The film fire that destroyed the fish factory, a damage was inadvertently really done.