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| Also known as | Ófærð |
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| Created by | Baltasar Kormákur |
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| Country of origin | Iceland |
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| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 28 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer | Sigurjón Kjartansson |
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| Cinematography | Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson |
| Editor | Sigvaldi J. Kárason |
| Running time | 50 minutes (approx.) |
| Production company | RVK Studios |
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| Network | RÚV |
| Release | 27 December 2015 – present |
Trapped (Icelandic: Ófærð) is an Icelandic television mystery drama series, created by Baltasar Kormákur and produced by RVK Studios. Broadcast in Iceland on RÚV started on 27 December 2015.[1] Co-written by Sigurjón Kjartansson and Clive Bradley, the first series of ten episodes follows Andri Ólafsson (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), the chief of police in a remote town in Iceland, solving the murder of a former townsman whose mutilated corpse is recovered by fishermen. The series was directed by Kormákur, Baldvin Z, Óskar Thor Axelsson and Börkur Sigthorsson.
Golden Globe winner Jóhann Jóhannsson with Hildur Gudnadóttir and Rutger Hoedemaekers composed the music. Sigurjón Kjartansson acted as executive producer, alongside Kormákur and Magnus V. Sigurdsson as producers. Dagblaðið Vísir reported on 2 May 2015 that Trapped is the most expensive television series ever made in Iceland, with overall costs estimated to be about 1,000,000,000 ISK (€6,500,000 EUR). Before this, most Icelandic television series rarely exceeded production costs of 100–200,000,000 ISK.[2] RVK Studios provided most of the funding, while Creative Europe also supported the project with 75,000,000 ISK. Filming for the first series took place in Siglufjörður, Seyðisfjörður and Reykjavík between December 2014 and May 2015.[2][3][4]
The series received its worldwide premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 20 September 2015. It has since been sold to numerous broadcasters across the world, including the BBC, which began screening it in the United Kingdom on BBC Four on 13 February 2016.[5] The Weinstein Company announced it had purchased the US distribution rights in September 2015.[6]
In September 2016, RÚV announced that a ten-episode second series had been commissioned for broadcast in late 2018 featuring the same lead characters.[7] Principal photography for the second series began in October 2017 in Siglufjörður. The first episode was premiered on RÚV on 26 December 2018,[8] and broadcast on BBC Four during February/March 2019, with two episodes being shown back-to-back.
Although early work on a third series was already underway by December 2018,[9] with filming commencing in September 2020,[10] the third series did not premiere on RÚV until 17 October 2021.[11] It was released internationally on Netflix under the title Entrapped on 8 September 2022, edited into six episodes, compared to the original eight.[12]
