As word spreads, order disintegrates into chaos as the ferrys passengers and the towns residents realise that a killer is trapped among them. This series of trapped has been more about fire than ice, but despite how it all began with gislis selfimmolation in such a public space i was not prepared for. First episode was a few days ago, we dvrd it and watched last night. Vikingurs ghanaian boyfriend, ebo, has had to tolerate mistreatment since he set foot on icelandic ground to work. Andri olafsson has started a new life in icelands capital of reykjavik. Trapped now showing on viceland on us tv iceland forum. The most expensive tv series in icelandic history, trapped follows detective andri olafsson portrayed by olafur darri olafsson as he works to solve the murder of a former townsman whose mutilated corpse is recovered by fishermen in a remote. In a remote town in iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.
The local police chief, andri olafssun realises a killer has descended into his town. Iceland will never be seen in the same light again after this and its predecessor. The original trapped was the highest rated series ever on ruv, followed by 86% of tv households in iceland. With no police support able to arrive from reykjavik until the snowstorm clears, andri and his colleagues need to work fast. Ironically, the cast and crew were left trapped in siglufjor. A sheep farmers attack on a government minister leads andri to iceland s remote highlands, where a worker at a. It is a unique crime drama not only because it is an icelandic crime drama with a beautiful and cold location but because the crime story that trapped tells has not been told before, which makes watching it a firsttime experience. Chief of police andri olafsson olafur darri olafsson chases the trafficker jonas malakauskas vytautas narbutas through the frozen icelandic.
A sheep farmers attack on a government minister leads andri to icelands remote highlands, where a worker at a local power plant is found murdered. Trapped series and episode guides tv from radiotimes. May 09, 2018 the first series of trapped was widely successful, enjoying 5. When jonas malakauskas is detained for the night, the. Set three years after the events in season 1, the second season of the awardwinning scandi noir mystery thriller trapped of. Trapped is an amazing show with drama and suspense. Fans can now watch the trailer for the upcoming series in icelandic.
It is full of flashbacks, exposition, moody men, impassioned speeches, and another death and pigs. With olafur darri olafsson, ilmur kristjansdottir, ingvar sigurdsson, elva maria birgisdottir. As he tries to rebuild a shattered family at home, an attempt to assassinate a politician through selfimmolation throws his work back into the deadly cat and mouse games he had been trying to escape. Trapped season 2, episode 10 is another directed by baltasar kormakur, writer and creator of the show. A real rollercoaster ride from episode 1 till the credits of season 10. A clue at the scene of the second death casts suspicion on two young brothers with ties to.
Everyone in town is warned not to drink the tap water. Visir reported on 2 may 2015 that trapped is the most expensive television series ever made in iceland, with overall costs estimated to be about 1,000,000,000 isk 6,500,000 eur. When jonas malakauskas is detained for the night, the photos of the human torso appear on. All emotions and more things going on behind closed doors than you could ever imagine. One might say this is a bleak look at life in iceland, but i was engaged throughout. Before this, most icelandic television series rarely exceeded production costs of 100200,000,000 isk.
The series was listed by bbc as one of the most exciting programmes to watch in 2018. Feb 17, 2017 trapped, a 10episode series beginning sunday on viceland, takes the resemblance further. A mutilated and dismembered body washes on the shore, an unidentifiable man murdered only hours ago. The sixties were a relatively quiet time for icelandic cinema, with only two major productions produced in that decade. The series was filmed in the fishing village of siglufjor. Season 2 of hit icelandic crime thriller set to premiere in.
Its hero, a lumbering, bearlike, smalltown police chief named andri olafur darri olafsson, is a. Heres what you need to know about the icelandic crimedrama. As a ferry is approaching a small icelandic town in a deep fjord in the east, a dead body is found. Outside parliament in reykjavik, a man throws himself at the minister for industry, setting fire to them both. Season one was fabulous, but i think season 2 even beat that. Cowritten by sigurjon kjartansson and clive bradley, the first series of ten episodes follows andri olafsson olafur darri olafsson, the chief of police in a remote town in iceland, solving the. That same day a dismembered body is found in the river, sparking an investigation and a call to reykjavik for detective reinforcements to assist the small local police force.
Trapped, the lava field hraunid, cover story pressa2, case rettur. The series has been very popular in iceland and as well as across the world, for example it was the most popular international series broadcasted in france in 2016, with 5. These were the gogo girl 1962, directed by eric balling, and hagbard and signe 1967, a coproduction between iceland, sweden and denmark. Trapped ii to be aired in the winter of 2018, with less.
This series of trapped has been more about fire than ice, but despite how it all began with gislis selfimmolation in such a public space i was not prepared for the horrific car fire at the start of. Dramacool will always be the first to have the episode so please bookmark and add us on facebook for update enjoy. This is trapped season 2 trailer by rvk studios on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. In a remote town in iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful. With the ferry held in dock and a bad snowstorm threatening to cut off the. This year started with one of the most anticipated nordic returns in the final series of the bridge, and at the end. Theres a moment early in episode one when andri is asked of the unfolding situation im keeping it vague to avoid spoilers. Jan 16, 2020 the first season of the tv series trapped, created by baltasar kormakur and produced by rvk studios, was broadcast in iceland in december 2015.
Andri olafsson, now working in reykjavik, is assigned to the case. The body of a murder victim turns up in a small icelandic village just as a major snowstorm cuts the region off from the rest of the world. I have to admit, i had never heard of this channel but while looking for something else the other day i noticed that the icelandic show trapped, which had been mentioned here in the past, is now showing on a channel called viceland. Watch trapped season 1 english subtitled prime video. Trapped 2015 tv show season 2 episodes list next episode. As is often the case with scandinavian cinema, the film took its inspiration from history, particularly the twelfthcentury work gesta. Winner of multiple edda awards from the icelandic film and television. An attack on a politician forces icelandic chief of police andri to return to the scene of events that still haunt him. Season 2 guide for trapped 2015 tv series see the episodes list with schedule and episode summary. Broadcast in iceland on ruv started on 27 december 2015.