Title: The Oath
Original Title: Eiðurinn
Year: 2016
Info
- Country: Iceland UK
- Language: Icelandic
- Length: 103 Minutes (1 hour 43 min)
- Genre: Drama Thriller Crime
- Distributor: A Contracorriente Films
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Plot
Finnur (Baltasar Kormákur) is a successful heart surgeon who has two children. His familiar life starts to shake when his daughter Anna (Hera Hilmar) begins a relationship with a manipulative drug dealer. His control over Anna and all her family is getting stronger, and Finnur decides to take extreme measures since he cannot find any other solution. The father is willing to do anything in order to get his daughter out of that dangerous world, unaware that the risk can be found in the most unexpected places. The movie is directed by its own protagonist, Baltasar Kormákur, director of films such as '2 Guns', 'Contraband' and 'Everest', and who comes back to his homeland to create this thriller.
Cast
Director:
Finnur
Anna
Óttar
Solveig
Hrefna
Ragnar
Videos
August 28 2016
Photos
Trivia
'Virgin Mountain'
One of the film's characters watches the film 'Virgin Mountain', one the successes of Islandic cinema on 2015.
The reason behind the title
'The Oath' comes from the Hippocratic Oath sworn by all doctors.
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