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The Sacred Mound

Original title: Hin helgu vé
  • 19931993
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
167
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The Sacred Mound (1993)
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On a small island in the west of Island, Gestur, only seven years old, falls in love with 20 years old Helga. When she introduces him her fiancée one day, he decides to fight the competitor ... Read allOn a small island in the west of Island, Gestur, only seven years old, falls in love with 20 years old Helga. When she introduces him her fiancée one day, he decides to fight the competitor with traditional Wicking weapons.On a small island in the west of Island, Gestur, only seven years old, falls in love with 20 years old Helga. When she introduces him her fiancée one day, he decides to fight the competitor with traditional Wicking weapons.
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
167
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    • Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
    • Hrafn Gunnlaugsson(screenplay)
    • Bo Jonsson(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Steinþór Rafn Matthíasson
    • Alda Sigurðardóttir
    • Helgi Skúlason
    • Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
    • Hrafn Gunnlaugsson(screenplay)
    • Bo Jonsson(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Steinþór Rafn Matthíasson
    • Alda Sigurðardóttir
    • Helgi Skúlason
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    Steinþór Rafn Matthíasson
    • Gestur
    Alda Sigurðardóttir
    • Helga
    Helgi Skúlason
    Helgi Skúlason
    • Helga's Father
    Tinna Finnbogadóttir
    • Kolla
    Valdimar Örn Flygenring
    • Hjalmtyr
    Agneta Prytz
    Agneta Prytz
    • Gestur's Grandmother
    Edda Björgvinsdóttir
    Edda Björgvinsdóttir
    • Gestur's Mother
    Arne Nyberg
    Arne Nyberg
    Aldís Aðalbjarnardóttir
    Andri Garðar Reynisson
    Anna S. Karlsdóttir
    Arna Björg Jónasdóttir
    Arna Bryndís Óskarsdóttir
    Atli Freyr Friðbjörnsson
    Ásta Guðmundsdóttir
    Bjarki Guðjónsson
      Einar Long Siguroddsson
      Eiríkur Eiríksson
          • Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
          • Hrafn Gunnlaugsson(screenplay) (story)
          • Bo Jonsson(screenplay)
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        6/10
        A rather average film with interesting milieu
        A young lad, Gestur (Steinþór Rafn Matthíasson), gets sent to live with relatives on an isolated peninsula off the coast of Iceland, while his mother, a concert pianist, is on tour. There the precocious boy falls in love with a woman nearly three times his age. The problem is that she is about to get married...

        Close to the homestead is an ancient Viking burial mound, which, the boy is informed, contains a treasure and Viking weapons. Gestur is warned not to dig around the mound, as the spirits residing in the mound, would, when disturbed, cause the farmhouse to burn down. The boy becomes obsessed with the mound. The lad has a lively imagination, and convinces himself that he will need the ancient Viking weapons to kill the young man who is about to marry the girl Gestur is infatuated with.

        It is not a great film; the narrative is rather thin. However, I did enjoy the Icelandic landscape and culture of the locals, and the actor who played Gestur did so convincingly. The quality of the copy of the film I viewed was unfortunately rather poor with lots of speckling. (I did not penalize the film for this.) 5.5/10.
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          • October 29, 1993 (Iceland)
          • Iceland
          • Sweden
          • Icelandic
        • Also known as
          • Keflavik airport, Reykjanes, Iceland
        • Production companies
          • FilmTeknik
          • Icelandic Film
          • Nordisk Film- & TV-Fond
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        • 1 hour 24 minutes
          • Color
          • Dolby

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