

A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
Acting
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson's exhausted eyes carry entire decades.
Cinematography
Reykjavík as gray purgatory—every frame feels refrigerated.
Writing
Twists that reframe everything without cheap shocks.

Director
Baltasar Kormákur
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Arnaldur Indriðason's novel 'Mýrin'—the first Icelandic crime fiction translated into English, launching the entire Nordic noir boom.
The 'jar city' itself refers to a real medical museum in Reykjavík housing preserved organs; Kormákur filmed on location, and yes, those specimens are real.
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