Cruelty

Also known as Grimmd

Cruelty is a 2016 Icelandic film written and directed by Anton Sigurðsson.

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Cruelty (Icelandic: Grimmd) is a 2016 Icelandic film written and directed by Anton Sigurðsson.

The film revolves around two young sisters from Reykjavík who are found murdered and the two police detectives assigned to solve the case.

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Awards and nominations

In 2017, Cruelty was nominated for awards at the Filmfest Hamburg and Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir was nominated for Actress of the Year at the Edda Awards.

Court case

In 2023, director Anton Sigurðsson was found guilty of embezzling ticket sales from the film, using pre-paid ticket sales to pay outstanding salaries and other outstanding production expenses when an Icelandic Film Center (KMI) post-production grant was heavily postponed. However, Sigurðsson's father and another producer were found to have been responsible for the ticket purchases and transfers of funds respectively, resulting in one charge being dismissed and Sigurðsson receiving a vacated sentence. Nevertheless, Sigurðsson stated that he was "naive" and "took full responsibility for the case."

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Also known as Grimmd

Notable quotes

“He who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, being entangled by bonds of enmity, cannot be free from enmity.”
— Dhammapada Verse 251
“Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think Christians get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, am I a good person? […] It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God?”
— Anita Blake, to Richard Zeeman
“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”
— C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938), p. 88
“There is little more destructive than the passive bystander allowing cruelty to be freely imposed.”
— Sarah Schulman,
“Sadism is plainly connected with the need for self-assertion. At the same time it cannot be separated from the idea of defeat. A sadist is a man, who, in some sense, has his back to the wall. Nothing is further from sadism, for example, than the cheerful, optimistic mentality of a Shaw or Wells.”
— Colin Wilson in The Origins of the Sexual Impulse, p. 158.
“Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait à cette heure sur cet échafaud.”
— I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold.

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