Woman at War (2018)

Original title

Kona fer í stríð

Directed by

Benedikt Erlingsson

Genre

black comedy film, thriller film

Country

Ukraine, Iceland, France

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

15

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 440 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A quiet woman in Reykjavik secretly fights the aluminum industry by sabotaging power lines. As she attacks the system, she also prepares to adopt a child from Ukraine. The story balances her environmental activism with the chaos it brings to her personal life.

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What happens

Woman at War (Icelandic: Kona fer í stríð, lit. 'Woman goes to battle'code: isl promoted to code: is , version in Ukrainian: «Гірська жінка: на війні», romanized: Girska zhinka: na viyni, lit. 'Highland Woman: at the War') is a 2018 Icelandic-Ukrainian comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, and starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir. It premiered in the Critics' Week section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It was released on 22 May 2018 to critical acclaim and selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards ceremony, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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