Jar City

A weary cop’s investigation of a recent murder leads to a 30-year-old crime and a twisted trail of national secrets in this taut and tense police procedural thriller. Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson, Olafia Hronn Jonsdottir, Elma Lisa Gunnarsdottir, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir. Directed by Baltasar Kormakur., Investigating the murder of an old man, Police Detective Erlendur find clues linking it to the mysterious death of a child in 1974 but struggles to find the link. Meanwhile, Orn, a man distraught at the death of his young daughter, uses the national genetics database to find out why she died. Starring Ingvar E., In 1974, a young Icelandic girl met a grim fate at the hands of a murderer — and the crime was never solved. So begins celebrated director Baltasar Kormákur’s procedural thriller Jar City (or Mýrin), adapted from Icelandic writer Arnaldur Indridason’s 2000 best-seller, Tainted Blood. In the present day, the jaded and exhausted detective Erlendur (Ingvar E. Sigurdsson) begins to investigate a link between that notorious unsolved crime and the homicide of a local thug, Holberg (Thorsteinn Gunnarsson). Erlendur also struggles in his private life with an overwhelming problem: the drug addiction of his own pregnant daughter, Eva Lind (Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir). Meanwhile, Örn (Atli Rafn Sigurdarson), an employee at a DNA-mapping lab, reels from the death of his own daughter, who suffered from a brain tumor. In time, the two men’s lives will intersect in a myriad of ways that neither can even begin to foresee — and the motivation for Holberg’s original crime will become resoundingly clear., A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad., A weary cop’s investigation of a recent murder leads to a 30-year-old crime and a twisted trail of national secrets in this police procedural thriller., Icelandic thriller. Investigating the murder of an old man, Police Detective Erlendur find clues linking it to the mysterious death of a child in 1974 but struggles to find the link. Meanwhile, Orn, a man distraught at the death of his young daughter, uses the national genetics database to find out why she died. Dir: Baltasar Kormakur.