A White, White Day
World Cinema Classics
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Drama, Mystery, UR
As time passes and seasons change in a remote Icelandic town, off-duty police chief Ingimundur (Ingvar Sigurosson) doggedly works at renovating a new home and starting over, following his wife's death in a car accident. Debilitated by grief, Ingimundur still has a warm and devoted relationship with his granddaughter, but is increasingly alienated from other people. An accidental discovery about his wife sees Ingimundur's detective instincts click back into gear. But this is no standard police procedural.
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