
Fire on Heimaey
1990-07-18 · 29 min · ★ 6.3
Beautiful documentary by Osvaldur Knudsen about the eruption on Heimaey in the Vestmann Islands in 1973 (South of Iceland). The eruption destroyed some 30% of the town's houses and lasted for more than 5 months. Nice narration like in the old days and some nice sound(track) by Magnus Bl. Johannsson.
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- Ósvaldur Knudsen, Vilhjálmur Knudsen
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- VÓK-Film (I)
- Countries
- Iceland
- Status
- Released
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