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Cold Fever (1994)

Cold Fever poster
Original title
Á köldum klaka
Directed by
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Genre
comedy drama, mystery film
Country
Iceland
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
12+
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Japanese businessman travels across Iceland to perform a ritual for his deceased parents. Along the way he encounters strange locals and harsh landscapes.

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What happens

Cold Fever (Icelandic: Á köldum klaka) is a 1995 Icelandic film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It is a road movie set in Iceland and was the first of Friðrik's films to be made in the English language. The movie depicts the travels of a Japanese man across Iceland. It was jokingly promoted as the best Icelandic-Japanese road movie of 1995. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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