Jar City

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Jar City aka Mýrin
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Si Wooldridge

aka Mýrin...
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 90 minutes
Retail Price: £15.99
Release Date: 26/01/2009
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
It looks like nothing ever happens in Iceland and when a seemingly innocuous old man is brutally killed, the news is in someway amplified. Detective Erlendur Sveisson, fifty and living a life plagued by various forms of addiction, is appointed the apparently incomprehensible case. During his investigations of the murder, Erlendur discovers that the victim was anything but an innocent pensioner, his past filled with rape and violence. These findings lead Erlendur to connect the assassination to other unsolved homicides, revealing an unsettling and gory picture that spreads virtually over the entire country.

Special Features:

Audio Tracks:
5.1 Surround
2.0 Stereo

Subtitle Tracks:
Burnt In English

Directed By:
Baltasar Kormákur

Written By:
Arnaldur Indriðason
Baltasar Kormákur

Starring:
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson
Ãgústa Eva Erlendsdóttir
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir
Atli Rafn Sigurðsson
Kristbjörg Kjeld
Theódór Júlíusson

Soundtrack By:
Mugison

Director of Photography:
Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson

Editor:
Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir

Costume Designer:
Harpa Einarsdottir

Production Designer:
Atli Geir Grétarsson

Visual Effects:
Anders Bloch-Rose
Michael Holm

Producer:
Agnes Johansen
Reinhard Klooss
Oliver Huzly
Baltasar Kormákur
Lilja Pálmadóttir

Executive Producer:
Kim Magnusson

Distributor:
Universal Pictures UK