María has fled her home of Germany in the wake of the aftermath of the second world war and comes to Iceland to work on a farm.
Cinematography
Iceland's landscape shot like a hostile witness to human suffering.
Acting
Barbara Auer's face does what dialogue refuses to.
Director
Einar Heimisson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Einar Heimisson never made another feature; this remains his only theatrical release, shot on a budget that couldn't afford weather protection.
Iceland hosted over 500 German refugees post-WWII, yet national memory largely erased them—this film exists in deliberate friction with that silence.
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