![]() ![]() Ólafsson’s performance is as remarkable as the landscape. The weather is one of the ruling factors in Iceland – so I made it a pivotal character.” And I wanted to remind the audience that we are on the outskirts of the inhabitable world. “I wanted to close people in with a murder, to make the town a ticking clock. “It’s a mix of Nordic noir and Agatha Christie,” says Kormákur. When the snow falls here, it lasts for months. It was shot over six months in Seyðisfjörður, a tiny coastal fishing village with a population of just 1,000. We’ve been here before, it seems, in Scandi and Nordic dramas such as The Killing or The Bridge, or the Arctic-based British series Fortitude. Then the weather descends an awesome snowstorm that grounds the airplanes, ices the roads and leaves the villagers confined to their homes. Everyone is fearful, everyone suddenly suspect. As Trapped starts, a torso floating in a fjord turns an isolated town into a crime scene.
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