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Does anyone know who these children
are? Who they became? What happens
when "the image of happiness" grows
up? I am in the process of making a doc-
umentary about a trip to Iceland (from
Australia). My interest in Iceland origi-
nated from this
scene from Chris
Marker's ‘Sans
Soleil’. Any help
would be greatly
appreciated.
- Peter Hanlon
Dear Peter,
Last year, Icelan-
dic film enthu-
siasts launched
a search for
the girls in the
early minutes of
Marker’s ‘Sans Soleil’. In the film, the
footage is accredited to volcanolo-
gist and geologist Haroun Tazieff; it
was most likely shot during the Surtsey
eruption in 1965. The girls turned out
to be three sisters from Draumbær in
Surtsey’s neighbour island, Heimaey in
the Westman Islands. The sisters are
named Kristbjörg, Halldóra and Áshil-
dur Kristmundsdóttir. Kristbjörg, the
eldest, now lives in Patreksfjörður, but
her younger sisters both reside in Swe-
den.
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