Iceman

Iceman (Der Mann aus dem Eis, 2017) is a survival drama by Felix Randau you can watch online on iFILM. The Ötztal Alps, more than 5,000 years ago. Kelab, played by Jürgen Vogel, comes home from a hunt to a burned camp: raiders have slaughtered his clan and stolen a sacred relic. Only an infant survives in his arms.

What follows is a hunt across glaciers and snow. There is barely any dialogue. The characters speak a reconstructed early language with no subtitles, so you read the story through faces, breath and the cold itself. Franco Nero turns up as a mountain hermit, the one figure Kelab can still lean on.

This Austrian-German-Italian film draws on the real discovery of Ötzi, the mummified man frozen in the Alps for millennia. It is sparse work, almost wordless, built around weather and raw physical endurance rather than plot mechanics. If you are tired of chatty blockbusters and want something hard and elemental about revenge at the dawn of human history, give it a night. Stream Iceman (2017) online on iFILM.