CITY STATE/ BORGRIKI

Iceland, 2011, 87 minutes, Colour.
Zlatko Krickic, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Ingvar Eggert Sigurasson, Siguraur Sigurjonsson, Bjorn Thors.
Directed by Olaf de Fleur.

City State is quite a grim thriller, set in contemporary Reykjavik, with quality number of strands interconnecting.

A Serb man is distraught when his unborn child is killed. A policewoman is caught up investigations. The drug scene in Iceland is experiencing a takeover from foreign criminals. And there are local corrupt police.

The film is edited like an American thriller, different time periods, each making comment on the other, an unpleasant picture of what international drug crime can do to individuals, groups and a culture.

Representatives of the foreign drug dealers are played by Jonathan Pryce and Philip Jackson.

1. Europeans story, the Iceland setting? Production?

2. The settings, the city, homes, garages, restaurants, offices? Authentic feel? The score?

3. The title?

4. The world of crime, police, corruption?

5. Sergei, his Serbian background, in Iceland, the deals, the garage, the various thugs, hiding the drugs, the threat to his wife, the life,
her miscarriage, in hospital, his motivations for action, the fellow Serbs, the confrontation with gun, with the police? Threats and violence?

6. The police, the leader and Andrea, the effect, the wife, being thrown from the balcony, surviving, in hospital, the two women? His continued pursuit?

7. Ingolfur and his role, with Sergei, the garage, the further confrontations, the thugs, getting out, the confrontation?

8. Gunnar in himself, his business, the English partner and his giving up, the outsider, the temptation of his bids? Gunnar, his health, collapse? Ingolfur and Sergei, revenge?

9. The police chief, deals, data the clubs, the prostitutes, his corruption, arranging evidence, the challenge from Gunnar?

10. The range of characters, situations – and an ugly environment picture of the city state?