Sóley

Apr 17 1982 N/A 1h 47m
Fantasy

The story of Sóley is about freedom and oppression. Set in Iceland in the dark eighteenth-century, it relates the adventures of a young farmer whose horses - symbols of his independence - are missing. In his search for the horses and his freedom, he journeys across the uninhabited wastelands of the mountainous interior of the country. Here he encounters the legendary figures of folk tradition. The elf-maiden, Sóley, accompanies him on his way across the highlands. She is the incarnation of the dreams woven by the farmers of Iceland, poverty stricken and oppressed - dreams of a better and more humane way of life, envisaged as the lot of supernatural beings, concealed in the harsh, dramatic landscape of Iceland.

Plot

As the Danish Church comes to collect on a debt, a young farmer runs away and ends up in a mysterious land where he meets Sóley, an elf-maiden.

Written by

Manrico Povolettino, Einar Ólafsson, Róska Óskarsdóttir

Directed by

Manrico Povolettino, Róska Óskarsdóttir

Cast

Rúnar Guðbrandsson, Pétur Hraunfjörð, Tina Hagedorn Olsen

Crew

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Production Countries

Iceland

Languages

Íslenska

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
28
Average Rating
6.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA