In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.
Acting
Sigurðsson's volcanic restraint—grief pressed behind granite.
Cinematography
That opening single-take gravel road: existential dread as landscape.
Direction
Pálmason's patience weaponizes silence until it screams.
Director
Hlynur Pálmason
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
Ingimundur
Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir
Salka
Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Olgeir
Björn Ingi Hilmarsson
Trausti
Elma Stefanía Ágústsdóttir
Elín
Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir
Ingimundur's wife
Haraldur Ari Stefánsson
Stefán
Sigurður Sigurjónsson
Bjössi
Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson
Hrafn
Laufey Elíasdóttir
Ingibjörg
Thor Tulinius
Georg (as Þór Hrafnsson Tulinius)
Sverrir Þór Sverrisson
Sveppi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The opening 8-minute static shot of a car on a rural road was filmed with a modified security camera—Pálmason wanted the weather to feel like surveillance.
The film's Icelandic title 'Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur' derives from a Nordic expression about rare atmospheric conditions where visibility becomes infinite—ironically, Ingimundur's clarity destroys him.
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