Thin Ice

A Swedish-Icelandic thriller series about a Swedish minister who proposes a ban on oil drilling in the Arctic. When the Arctic Council meets in Greenland to sign a treaty to that effect, a Swedish ship nearby is attacked and its crew kidnapped. The attack turns out to be the first step in a carefully planned operation to prevent the treaty from being signed.

The series was filmed mostly in Iceland, and María played Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs on the Arctic Council. The cast included many Nordic stars, among them Lena Endre, Bianca Kronlöf, Alexander Karim, Johannes Kuhnke, Angunnguaq Larsen, Nukâka, Nicolas Bro, Hauk Heyerdahl, Kristofer Gummerus, Marina Bouras and Reine Brynolfsson.