Director
Nietzchka Keene
Composer
Larry Lipkis
Cast
Björk, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir, Valdimar Örn Flygenring
Edition 1995
78'
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1990
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Fantasy, Drama
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Dialogue:
English
Singer Björk, here quite likable in her role as an elfin teenager in a reworked Brothers Grimm tale, is only one of several good reasons to catch this film. Shot in Iceland, the story, set in the Middle-Ages, is about two sisters, Katla and Margit who leave their village after their mother is burned as a witch. The older one marries a widower whose young son hates his stepmother' s strange ways. The boy befriends the younger sister, who is visited by visions of her own dead mother. In the Grimm tradition, family tensions give way to horrific acts, and emotional complexities are reduced to a kind of thrillingly crude drama.
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Credits
Directors
Nietzchka Keene
Composers
Larry Lipkis
Cast
Björk, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir, Valdimar Örn Flygenring
Scenario
Nietzchka Keene, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Director of Photography
Nanna Luisa Zophaniasdottir
Editors
Nietzchka Keene
Producers
Nietzchka Keene
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
Iceland
Screenplay based on
"The Juniper Tree" (Gebroeders Grimm)
Year
1990