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Title: PALE STAR

Reference number: 13893

Date: 2016

Director: Graeme Maley

Sponsor: Creative Scotland

Production company: Makar Productions

Sound: sound

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 80 mins

Description: Pale Star is about the possessiveness of love, and how that possession peels back to expose power and control until we can see, in its dark heart, not love but murder. The tragedies of two couples’ lives collide against the dramatic black landscapes of southern Iceland. Solveig kills her husband in a fight about his abuse of their daughter Dis. Tourist Molly flees the abuse of her drunken husband, Kurt. Molly arrives at Solveig’s isolated house and, to begin with, is offered shelter. Things begin to unravel when sickly and comatose Kurt is also brought to Solveig’s home for shelter, and Solveig offers to help Molly with her problem husband. However Molly has no idea about the sinister direction this ‘help’ is going to take. [Synopsis taken from Creative Scotland, https://www.creativescotland.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/34830/FilmFromScotland2016.pdf, last accessed 21/10/21]

Catalogued from various secondary sources including Creative Scotland and Makar Productions website.

World Premiere Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016.

Credits: [Production Companies:
Makar Productions and Vintage Pictures

Director:
Graeme Maley

Writer:
Graeme Maley.

Producers:
Eddie Dick
Hlín Jóhannesdottir
Birgitta Björnsdóttir

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Cast:
Þrúður Vilhjálmsdóttir
Isabelle Joss
Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson
Iain Robertson]