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Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
· Movie
· 121 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Every rating
46–66
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 46, highest is Kinopoisk on 66. Critics average 50, everyone else 63.
See the most agreed on films →Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
Details
- Director
- Bille August
- Writer
- Ann Biderman
- Released
- 28 February 1997
- Country
- Germany, Denmark, Sweden
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Budget
- $35.0M
- Box office
- $2.4M
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