Drama
The Sacred Mound
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.
Top Cast
Steinþór Rafn Matthíasson
Gestur
Alda Sigurðardóttir
Helga
Helgi Skúlason
Helga's Father
Tinna Finnbogadóttir
Kolla
Valdimar Örn Flygenring
Hjalmtyr
Agneta Prytz
Gestur's Grandmother
Edda Björgvinsdóttir
Gestur's Mother
Arne Nyberg
Directed by
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
Production
SF Studios
Svenska Filminstitutet
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
SVTReviews
MoHA
8/25/2015
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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