Johanna is fighting patriarchy on so many fronts, in her personal and professional life as well as in society as a whole.
However, I don’t think Johanna is trying to re-write history, but rather recover a missing part of it (a huge chunk, in fact!) since women have up until quite recently been left out of it to a large extent. Screenwriting is mostly re-writing, right? But yes, our story differs greatly from the novel and it’s fair to say that the series is inspired by, rather than based on the book. Joanna battles, moreover, to re-write history in past and present, in the past by publishing a paper on the repression of women with Iceland’s conversion to Christianity, in the present by exonerating herself from murder and retaining ownership to her family house by solving the Flatey Enigma. The mini-series seems a re-writing of story and history, including of the original best-selling novel, in that its absolute protagonist is now Johanna, not the novel’s male detective. Variety talked to Örnólfsdóttir about “The Flatey Enigma,” which competes for the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for outstanding writing, announced at the Goteborg Festival which kicks off today. The Icelandic mini-serie is produced by Sagafilm, and co-produced by Reykjavik Films, in association with Nordic public broadcasters RUV, DR, SVT, YLE and NRK, and with support from the Icelandic Film Centre, Creative Europe andNordisk Film & TV Fond. Accused of the murder of a Danish codebreaker friend of her father’s, Johanna has to exonerate herself – hard when the investigating police office sent from Reykjavík wants her out of the way to claim custody of their child – and to solve the Flatey Enigma to keep possession of her family house. Johanna is a Paris post-1968 sophisticate in a world of Victorian patriarchy. He has spent his life attempting to solve an enigmatic riddle in “The Book of Flatey,” the most celebrated of Icelandic mediaeval manuscripts.
Björnsson (“Cold Trail”), it kicks off in the spring of 1971, when Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies, jets into Iceland to attend her father’s funeral. Adapted by Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, that works on various levels: As Nordic Noir for the family, a celebration of the extraordinary history and legends of Iceland and, for those who are looking for it, a pioneering tale of women rewriting or reclaiming history.ĭirected by Björn B. Set on the stunning Isle of Flatey, North-West of Iceland, the four-part Sky Vision-sold miniseries “The Flatey Enigma” is also a women-centric reading of the eponymous novel by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson which inspires it.
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