Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1997 Danish German Icelandic Swedish mystery thriller movie directed by Bille August and based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Peter Høeg. It stars Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Jim Broadbent, Vanessa Redgrave, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Loggia, Bob Peck, David Schwimmer, Peter Capaldi, Jürgen Vogel and was distributed by 20th Century Fox.