Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1997 thriller film directed by Bille August and starring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Loggia and Richard Harris. Based on the 1992 novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Danish author Peter Høeg, the film is about a transplanted Greenlander, Smilla Jasperson, who investigates the mysterious death of a small Inuit boy who lived in her housing complex in Copenhagen. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in... Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, and director Bille August was nominated for the Berlin International Film Festival Golden Berlin Bear award in 1997. In 1859, a meteorite streaks across the sky and crashes into the Gela Alta glacier in western Greenland, causing a massive explosion that kills an Inuit fisherman. In present day Copenhagen, Smilla Jasperson , a transplanted Greenlander, is studying ice crystals at a university lab.
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| Release date: | February 28, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Bille August |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | Martin Moszkowicz, Bernd Eichinger |
| Editor: | Janus Billeskov Jansen |
| Music by: | Harry Gregson-Williams, Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography: | Jörgen Persson |
| Screenplay by: | Ann Biderman |
| Estimated budget: | $35,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Smilla's Sense of Snow |
| Genre: | Thriller |