Classic Movie: ‘Godland’

Godland

Rating: M.

142 minutes

Award winning writer/director Hlynur Pálmason’s stunning historical drama of a Danish priest who made a pilgrimage across a largely unexplored Iceland in the late 1800s.

Synopsis:

Lucas (Elliot Crosset Hove), an idealistic but naive young Lutheran clergyman, is on his way to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. With the help of a translator (Hilmar Guðjónsson) and guide (Ingvar E. Sigurðsson), he must journey across the spectacular and dangerous terrain, littered with glaciers and rivers. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality, with unexpected and shocking repercussions.