{"id":57558,"date":"2024-10-02T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riff.is\/?p=57558"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:43:49","slug":"hrafninn-flygur-40-ara-afmaelissyning-a-fostudaginn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/hrafninn-flygur-40-ara-afmaelissyning-a-fostudaginn\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RAVEN FLYS \u2013 40th anniversary show on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

"with a truck and a dip"<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the occasion of exactly four decades having passed since the Icelandic\/Swedish Viking film The Raven Flies
\ndirected by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson premiered in Iceland to the great admiration of tens of thousands of moviegoers,
\nIt seems fitting to bring it back to the attention of film lovers in this country.<\/p>\n

And it will be done with a bang, as it should be, but the band S\u00f3lstafir will
\nrepeat the game from ten years ago, on the film's thirtieth anniversary, when it premiered its own
\ncomposition in a dynamic way to the film by RIFF. The band members will therefore step back on
\nstok, this time in Hall 1 at H\u00e1sk\u00f3lab\u00ed\u00f3 and promise no less rock than when they entertained their guests in
\nThe hall in K\u00f3pavogur in the fall of 2014.<\/p>\n

"It's a film of mine," says the director himself, but it is still being shown to this day.
\naround the world. \u201cI guess you can\u2019t say it\u2019s timeless,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

The Raven Flies attracted a lot of attention and discussion at the time, and in fact before it was released.
\npublic, because the costumes and props had already raised the eyebrows of the countrymen, who looked on
\nsome wonder at the ancient methods used in leatherworking and metalworking that
\nwere subject to the laws of the colonial era in every way. The film also had no lack of ambition.
\nthemselves, but there the caves and caves under the Eyjafj\u00f6ll mountains played a big role.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a huge undertaking,\u201d recalls Hrafn. \u201cFor me, it was non-stop work for three years.\u201d
\nThe film tells the story of an Irish man who travels to Iceland on a mission to take revenge on the Vikings.
\nwho had killed his parents and kidnapped his sister when he was a child \u2013 and raised the
\nattention beyond the borders, especially among our kin nations in the Nordic countries where memory from
\nThe film, such as "Heavy Knife", still lives on in the minds of people.<\/p>\n

Here it seemed a spaghetti westerner in a Viking costume had arrived, somewhat in the spirit of the movie giants Akira
\nKurosawa and Sergio Leone, where the folktale of heroic nature and
\nthirst for revenge, but the characterization and interpretation of the main actors in the film was consequently fiercely
\nThe leading figures were Egill \u00d3lafsson and Helgi Sk\u00falason, along with Edda Bj\u00f6rgvinsd\u00f3ttir, Flosi
\n\u00d3lafsson and Jakob \u00de\u00f3r Einarsson who played the Irish newcomer.<\/p>\n

A good decade and a half after the premiere of The Raven, it was estimated that around seventy thousand people
\nhad seen the film in cinemas around the country, making it one of the ten most popular
\nIcelandic cinema towards the end of the last century, a period that has generally been called the Icelandic
\nthe movie spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still active fan clubs for the film abroad,\u201d Hrafn points out. \u201cI was once
\nI was invited to one of them, which is in Murmansk, from all corners of the world. I accepted it now, and had
\nfun, if only because the club chairman turned out to be the prison warden
\n"The city's vice-chairman and the police chief of Murmansk himself," says Hrafn Gunnlaugsson.
\nfinally.<\/p>\n

Buy a ticket!<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201eme\u00f0 trukki og d\u00fdfu\u201c \u00cd tilefni \u00feess a\u00f0 r\u00e9ttir fj\u00f3rir \u00e1ratugir eru li\u00f0nir fr\u00e1 \u00fev\u00ed \u00edslensk\/s\u00e6nska v\u00edkingamyndin Hrafninn fl\u00fdgur \u00ed leikstj\u00f3rn Hrafns Gunnlaugssonar var frums\u00fdnd \u00e1 \u00cdslandi vi\u00f0 mikla hrifningu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":940,"featured_media":57561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57560,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57558\/revisions\/57560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}