The skeletal remains of a young girl who disappeared 25 years ago are found in a gravel mine just outside a small town in the Snæfellsnes peninsula in the west of Iceland. The investigator Vera, is assigned the case and along with her partner, the recently promoted Einar, she investigates...
In Power. Out of Control. Politician. Poet. Prime Minister? Some have labeled Benedikt Ríkarðsson an unorthodox radical; he calls himself an honest citizen of Iceland. Who better to be the voice of this great nation? Benedikt is not interested in power—he wants to listen to the people and change the...
Elsa, a Swedish minister, proposes a treaty that prohibits oil drilling in the Arctic. As the Arctic Council gathers in Greenland to sign the treaty, a Swedish ship is attacked close by and the crew kidnapped. The Russian minister demands the meeting to be canceled. Elsa needs to make a...
Spring of 1971, Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies comes home from Paris to attend her father’s funeral. She’s also looking to find work at the University, but her feminist viewpoints about the systematic silencing of women’s voices in history does not go over well with the university board. She...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Heida Reed stars as quick-witted lawyer Stella Blómkvist, in this stylish neo-noir crime drama that’s as sexy as it is dangerous. Stella Blómkvist is not your typical lawyer. Smart and ruthless, with a dark past, a fluid sexuality and a taste for whiskey, Stella takes on cases that always...
LOGI, a lawyer who has burnt all his bridges and is on a seemingly neverending downward spiral of alcoholism and obsession gets a chance to redeem himself when he inserts himself into an investigation into the suspicious death of teenage ballet prodigy LÁRA. This puts him on a collision course...
The series follows lawyers at a respected law firm in Reykjavik. The lawyers deal with one case in each episode but an over- arching storyline dealing with the personal lives of the main characters develops throughout the series. Main character Logi can be described as “House” of the legal world,...
Crime is a universal problem and suspense is a universal language. The Press is a unique take on the genre where crimes are solved against the backdrop of the hard-hitting world of the yellow press where reputations can be built and ruined with a carefully placed headline. In these three...
The series can be described as being “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” VS “The French Revolution”. Set in 1992 at an isolated mental hospital on the outskirts of Reykjavík. The hospital, referred to as “World’s End” is a last stop for many mental patients. Elementary school teacher Einar is...
Based on a best-selling series of novels by Ævar Orn Josepsson published in Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Holland. The series is the highest rated Icelandic drama to date peaking at 67%. The story takes place in modern day Reykjavik. The four main characters are all police detectives of various ages...