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Running time 99 minutes Initial release 1996 | 7.2/10 Story by Einar Kárason | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Starring Baltasar KormákurGísli HalldórssonSigurveig Jónsdóttir Release date 3 October 1996 (1996-10-03) Cast Baltasar Kormákur, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Gísli Halldórsson, Sigurveig Jónsdóttir, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir Similar Movies about marriage, Other similar movies |
Devil's Island (Icelandic: Djöflaeyjan) is a 1996 Icelandic film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It is a dark comedy filmed in the Grótta area of South west Iceland. The story depicts a group of otherwise homeless families living in barracks abandoned by the US Air Force after the Second World War. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The film's themes include an ambivalence towards America and Americans, poverty and the accompanying social stigma, superstition and the spirit world, and a destructive family dynamic. The sound-track combines American pop (some of it performed in Icelandic) and a score by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson.
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