Smilla's Sense of Snow
Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1997 mystery thriller film directed by Bille August and starring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, and Richard Harris. Based on the 1992 novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (this was also the title of the UK release of the film) by Danish author Peter Høeg, the film is about a transplanted Greenlander, Smilla Jaspersen, who investigates the mysterious death of a small Inuit boy who lived in her housing complex in Copenhagen. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
Plot
In 1859, a meteorite streaks across the sky and crashes into the Gela Alta glacier in western Greenland, causing a massive explosion that kills an Inuit fisherman.
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| author | Ann Biderman |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Copenhagen |
| director | Bille August |
| genre | crime drama mystery thriller |
| keywords | accidental death apartment complex attack biopsy build cassette tape cave in district attorney end freezing to death greenland hiding place ice cave inuit learn mine mine worker murder rescue steal talk troubled past unemployed wound |
| musicBy | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| producer | Bernd Eichinger Martin Moszkowicz |
| productionCompany | Bavaria Film Constantin Film Det Danske Filminstitut Greenland Film Production Nordisk Film |
| publisher | All Right Film SF Film/Filmcompagniet |
| recordedAt | Germany |
| theme | mystery thriller |