Lamb is the first film where Noomi Rapace speaks in Icelandic, a language she learned while living in Iceland as a child.
In preparation for her role, Noomi Rapace spent time on an Icelandic farm and even learned how to help a sheep birth a lamb.
Highest grossing motion picture in the history of Icelandic cinema, as of 2021, earning over million dollars on the first weekend alone. This also makes this film the most attended Icelandic film shown in U.S. theaters ever (again on the first weekend alone), and this despite being pitted against such big-name blockbusters like the James Bond franchise, which premiered in USA theaters on that same weekend.
Official submission of Iceland for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.
In traditional Greek mythology, when King Minos of Crete failed to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon, the god caused his wife to lust after the animal. By it, she conceived the Minotaur, a monster with a bull's head and a man's body, which was confined in a labyrinth. There, it devoured human beings, until it was killed by Theseus.
Some critics have compared this film to a reversal of the Ancient Greek Minotaur myth, further linking the mythology of Lamb to Hellenic origins.
Some critics have compared this film to a reversal of the Ancient Greek Minotaur myth, further linking the mythology of Lamb to Hellenic origins.