COLD TRAIL - dir. BJORN BR. BJORNSSON

Synopsis
This is a drama that revolves around a ruthless tabloid reporter, Baldur, who goes to any lengths to dig up a sensational story.

At the beginning of the story, a Security Guard is killed by an apparent accident in a remote and apparently haunted dam in the highlands of Iceland. At first, Baldur has no interest in the story; that is, until he discovers from his mother that the Security Guard was his biological father – a Man he never knew. Baldur becomes determined to find out more about his father and what happened to him, and leaves to investigate against the will of his editor.

He travels to the remote dam where the death occurred, under the disguise of a new security guard. He soon discovers that nothing is what it seems in this isolated place of Iceland. The crew working at the dam lives in a closed nit community and don’t like strangers at all. They illegally hunt reindeers – a business organized by Petur who’s the head of security at the dam – and Baldur’s presence puts that business into jeopardy. But it’s Baldur’s discovery of events, which happened twenty-five years earlier, involving his biological father and Petur, that put Baldur’s life at risk. The incident involved a woman who was brutally attacked and raped and a legendary ghost blamed for it.  As Baldur continues digging through old police files, he discovers that both his father and Petur were responsible for the attack. Gradually, Baldur becomes the subject of his own tabloid story, which is ironic, given his character and what he stands for in the beginning of the story.  He has now a moral dilemma to deal with.  

Original title: Köld Slóð
English title: Cold Trail
Genre: Drama / suspense
Language: Icelandic

Director: Björn Br. Björnsson
Scriptwriter: Kristinn Thórdarson
Main cast: Thröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Elva Ósk Ólafssdóttir, Hjalti Rögnvaldsson, Helgi Björnsson, Anita Briem, Tómas Lemarquis, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason
Editor: Sverrir Kristjánsson
Cinematographer: Vídir Sigurdsson
Sound design: Gunnar Árnason
Music: Veigar Margeirsson
Producer(s): Kristinn Thórdarson, Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson
Production company: Sagafilm ehf.
Co-production company: Reykjavík Films
International sales & distribution: NonStop Sales AB
Website: http://reykjavikfilms.is
http://www.nonstopsales.com

Country: Iceland
Sound: Dolby 5.1
Length: 99 min.
Screening format: 35mm
Production format: 16mm
Film gauge/aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Premiere date and year:  28.12.2006

Festivals
Nordic Film days Lubeck 2007,
Rouen Nordic Film Festival 2007