Film

Across the Interior of Iceland

1983 · 24m · Documentary

The film is about travelling on horseback across the Icelandic interior on the main route, which once connected the north of Iceland with the shout. This route was the scene of a tragic accident in the 18th century, when young farmers moving a flock of sheep to the North, perished in a snowstorm. For many years following the incident the track was not used, until the 19th century, when Captain Daniel Bruun from Denmark, accompanied by a photographer and a water-colour artist, crossed the difficult terrain, deep rivers, and rocky heights in sun, rain, fog and wind, marking the way with stones laboriously heaped into cairns.

• Ágúst GuðmundssonEditor · Director
• Indriði G. ÞorsteinssonScreenplay · Producer
• Ari KristinssonDirector of Photography

Release date

May 22, 1983

Status

Released

Original language

Icelandic

Runtime

24m

Genres

Documentary