Across the Interior of Iceland

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Across the Interior of Iceland (1983)

Directed by Ágúst Guðmundsson

Documentary · 24m

The film is about travelling on horseback across the Icelandic interior on the main route, which once connected the north of Iceland with the shout. This route was the scene of a tragic accident in the 18th century, when young farmers moving a flock of sheep to the North, perished in a snowstorm. For many years following the incident the track was not used, until the 19th century, when Captain Daniel Bruun from Denmark, accompanied by a photographer and a water-colour artist, crossed the difficult terrain, deep rivers, and rocky heights in sun, rain, fog and wind, marking the way with stones laboriously heaped into cairns.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Ágúst Guðmundsson
Screenplay
Indriði G. Þorsteinsson
Director of Photography
Ari Kristinsson
Editor
Ágúst Guðmundsson
Producer
Indriði G. Þorsteinsson

Details

Original title
Yfir Kjöl
Release date
1983-05-22
Runtime
24m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
IS
Spoken languages
Icelandic
Countries
Iceland
Production
Ísfilm (IS)