Towering stacs teeming with birdlife and a grassy home island, populated by hardy fishermen, shepherds and fowlers. This was the remote Atlantic archipelago of St. Kilda a century ago, just like the Westmann Islands off the south shores of Iceland.

The documentary Ginklofinn looks at how the inhabitants lived in their harsh environment and how both both the Icelandic and Scottish island communities were ravaged by a mystery illness that pushed infant mortality rates up to 80% at the beginning of the 20th century.

Ginklofinn will be shot on location at St. Kilda in the Hebrides and at the Westmann Islands off Iceland's south coast in August 2006. Fowling and fishing traditions and the story of these communities' will to survive is the subject of this film.

Narration will be by Magnús Magnússon and the documentary will be produced by KvikFilm.

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