Atlantic Rhapsody (1989)

Original title

Atlantic Rhapsody - 52 myndir úr Tórshavn

Directed by

Katrin Ottarsdóttir

Genre

documentary film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows a day in the life of several people in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. It moves from person to person and scene to scene like a relay race, each moment leading into the next.

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What happens

Atlantic Rhapsody is a 1989 Faroese film by Katrin Ottarsdóttir. The original Faroese title is Atlantic Rhapsody - 52 myndir úr Tórshavn, where the second part means "52 pictures from Tórshavn". The film presents a day in the life of some inhabitants of Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. The narrative is structured as a relay race, in which a person, a thing or something out of a scene brings the audience into another scene with new people and events. It is the first ever Faroese feature-length film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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