Magnolia has released the trailer for Benedikt Erlingsson‘s upcoming Icelandic comedy Woman at War, starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, and Davíð Þór Jónsson. Geirharðsdóttir plays a woman going it alone against the aluminum industry, escalating her activism from small-scale vandalism to large-scale sabotage.
Woman at War is Iceland’s entry for the 2019 Oscars and opens in theaters March 1st.
Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. As Halla’s actions grow bolder, from petty vandalism to outright industrial sabotage, she succeeds in pausing the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building a new aluminum smelter. But right as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that changes everything. Her application to adopt a child has finally been accepted and there is a little girl waiting for her in Ukraine. As Halla prepares to abandon her role as saboteur and savior of the Highlands to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother, she decides to plot one final attack to deal the aluminum industry a crippling blow.
