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The Sacred Mound (1993)

Nov 19, 1993 Drama 1h 24m
55%
User Score
5.9/10

Overview

A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.

Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
Director
Bo Jönsson
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Steinþór Rafn Matthíasson
Steinþór Rafn Matthíasson

Gestur
Alda Sigurðardóttir
Alda Sigurðardóttir

Helga
Helgi Skúlason
Helgi Skúlason

Helga's Father
Tinna Finnbogadóttir
Tinna Finnbogadóttir

Kolla
Valdimar Örn Flygenring
Valdimar Örn Flygenring

Hjalmtyr
Agneta Prytz
Agneta Prytz

Gestur's Grandmother
Edda Björgvinsdóttir
Edda Björgvinsdóttir

Gestur's Mother
Arne Nyberg
Arne Nyberg
Aldís Aðalbjarnardóttir
Aldís Aðalbjarnardóttir

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A review by MoHA
Written on August 25, 2015

When 7-year-old Gestur's mother goes abroad she sends him away to a farm in the country. There Gestur makes friends with Helga, a 20-year-old woman who in the beginning is more of a mother substitute. Soon she becomes the boy's object of desire, and he cannot stand the thought that there may be another man in Helga's life. When Gestur discovers that she actually has a boyfriend, he becomes so jealous that he concocts a plan so cruel only a child in love could have thought of it. COMMENTARY Hrafn Gunnlaugsson is back in the present again after several films set in prehistoric Iceland. This semi-autobiographical story of the sexual awakening of a boy is set in today's Iceland. Gestur - the boy carries the same name as the protagonist in the Raven films and is obsessed by Vikings - is left wi...

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