“A bloodthirsty prehistoric revenge movie.”
— Sight & Sound
“Stunning”
— Los Angeles Times
NEARLY 30 YEARS AFTER HIS DISCOVERY IN THE
MOUNTAINOUS SOUTHERN TYROL, ÖTZI’S DEATH REMAINS
THE WORLD’S OLDEST COLD CASE…
ON SEPTEMBER 20, THE STREAMING SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE,
FILM MOVEMENT PLUS, INVITES HOME VIEWERS ALONG FOR
AN EPIC NEOLITHIC THRILLER 5,300 YEARS IN THE MAKING!
ICEMAN Official U.S. Trailer
ICEMAN Official U.S. Trailer
On September 19, 1991, a melting glacier revealed the body of a man. At first, people assumed he was a hiker. Later, his true Stone Age origins were revealed. ICEMAN is his story, and the film that The Hollywood Reporter calls “a visceral thrill ride through the Alpine Copper Age” makes its streaming premiere on Film Movement Plus on September 20, nearly 30 years after Otzi’s discovery in the Southern Tyrol region between Austria and Italy.
From writer/director Felix Randau, ICEMAN is set in the stunning Ötztal Alps, more than 5,300 years ago. Kelab (Jürgen Vogel), leader of a Neolithic clan, is also the appointed keeper of the group’s holy shrine, Tineka. But, one day, while out hunting, his village is attacked by a band of marauders. Everyone in the tribe is brutally murdered, including Kelab’s wife and son, and Tineka is stolen. Blinded by pain and fury, Kelab now has one sole purpose – vengeance – and he sets off on a treacherous odyssey through the mountains to confront his family’s killers.
Of the film, Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times “Iceman’s’ Neolithic murder mystery and stunning scenery set it apart…marked by stunning locations and Jakub Bejnarowicz’s fleet, evocative cinematography, Iceman is almost like something unearthed itself: a recognizable B western sharpened as much by its glints of psychology as by its kinetic savagery. Jeanette Catsoulis of The New York Times said it was “filmed with elemental energy and wide-screen pizazz” and Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall.com gave it 4 ½ stars, saying that it’s “grittier than similar prehistoric adventures like Quest for Fire or Apocalypto…[and]the progression of the plot and the spectacular changing landscapes hold the interest, as does Randau’s relentlessly inventive direction.”
About FILM MOVEMENT PLUS
FILM MOVEMENT PLUS (www.filmmovementplus.com) opens up a world of provocative, compelling and award-winning films from Film Movement’s singular library. Priced at $5.99 per month with a free 14-day trial, the SVOD subscription service, currently available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Android TV, mobile (iOS and Android), and Chromecast, offers consumers immediate access to 250 festival favorite feature films and 100 short films, including: THEEB, the 2016 Academy Award® nominee for Best Foreign Film; AFTER THE STORM, a powerful family drama from 2018 Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda; HUMAN CAPITAL, a political thriller from Paolo Virzi (The Leisure Seeker) that was Italy’s Best Foreign Film submission for the 87th Academy Awards® and MY LOVE, DON’T CROSS THAT RIVER, an unforgettable documentary about true love that transcends generations and cultures and is South Korea’s most successful film of all time. Classics from the Film Movement catalog include Bille August’s PELLE THE CONQUEROR, an Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996 and much more.
About Film Movement
Founded in 2002, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide. Film Movement’s theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra, King Hu and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, Sergio Corbucci and Ettore Scola. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com.
