Eggert Þorleifsson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: July 18, 1952
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Other
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Old Spice
Overview: There is an old barbershop in the center of town. This is where Einar has cut hair for half a century or so. He has seen good times and bad times but independent from contemporary tendencies, he has always maintained his own style, but in recent years he has had to deal with the inevitable, his customers grow older, and one by one they slowly disappear. One day they simply don’t show up for their scheduled haircut. But what happens when one of his customers keeps coming after he is dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1999-09-23
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When Dreams Come True
Overview: The staff at the bureau of values may be the greatest bureaucrats in the world, but they have the most colourful dreams, not to mention their nightmare Rosie, is like a breath of fresh air when she comes into the office just before closing-time, raising everybody’s spirits. Live action and animation combined in a comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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The Resourceful Girl
Overview: A story of a ten year old girl, Erla, who finds a flute nobody else can hear and meets a boy nobody else can see. The boy turns out to be an elf who tells her that a spell has been cast on her father. Much to Erla's horror, her father is turned to stone when he's moving rocks around in the park, looking for worms. Erla's new found friend is the only one who can guide her on a search for a magic egg possessed by the big trolls in the mountains and said to be the only remedy for people who have been turned to stone.
Genres: Family
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Pink Bowties
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1985-12-26
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The Priest, Deacon and Groom
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Highway 48
Overview: A good couple on a Sunday drive has a car accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Pastoral Life
Overview: This is the story of how Þór and Danni run a farm. They get a job running a farm for a local farmer that is going on a vacation to sweden, they of course pronouns them selfs as experts in the field of agriculture, witch they of course aren't. When they have managed to get the "hold" of things they get the brilliant idea to have a agricultural seminar for city people on the farm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1984-10-04
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A Policeman's Life
Overview: Löggulíf is the third movie in the "-life" trilogy of knockabout comedies about the cheeky lads Thor and Danni. The others are New Life and Pastoral Life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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New Life
Overview: The film is the first of three about the misadventures of two friends, Þór and Danni. Two friends working at a restaurant get fired from their jobs and after seeing an advertisement for the fishing industry of the Westman Islands, decide to go there and make some money. The islands become a perfect setting for many funny and strange situations, especially after word gets around that the two are spies from the Ministry of Fisheries.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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Ahead of Time
Overview: More than twenty years after the premiere of one of the most beloved Icelandic films (On Top/Med allt a hreinu 1982) a sequel appears. A band which folded twenty years ago (they were even considered old-fashioned then) sees fit to stage a comeback. Indications point to a great future until the ghosts of the past catch up with the band in the form of a single mother and a jolly roadie. We follow the band not only through the magnificent Icelandic landscape but also through two continents and a brief spell in the other world.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2004-12-26
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On Top
Overview: Two rock groups, one male, the other female, decide to do a combined effort to hit the road of stardom by doing a show together. As the show is getting on the road, the lead singers of the two groups have a disagreement which brings about a parting of ways, in love as in life. A historic tour of the country begins, which through the music and performances of the two groups as well as the reactions of their audiences, reveals, beneath the comedy, glimpses of today's real competition between the sexes, seen against the background of Icelandic life.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1982-12-18
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Behind Schedule
Overview: A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-06
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The Higher Force
Overview: Ashamed for being a debt-collecting thug, David believes that he is an ugly duckling waiting to become a swan. Through an unlikely mentor he finds out that life has indeed something very special in store for him.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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Fiasco
Overview: Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Laddi 6-tugur
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Polite People
Overview: A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-31
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Stella Runs for Office
Overview: Stella and Salomon run a business together, framkoma.is. Salomon is hired by Anton Skúlason, pilot, to beautify and transform a village, that he owns. Stella stays in the town and starts teaching politicians how to act for the coming elections. By accident Stella gets involved with the Centrum party, the main rival of the Central party, and before she knows it she's head over heals in politics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2002-12-26
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The Icelandic Shock Station
Overview: The Icelandic Shock-Station is a thoroughbred Icelandic comedy, where the Icelander's daily life and habits are elevated to the level of farcical confusion and where all the laws of common sense are reversed in travesty of themselves, while at the same time the opportunity is taken to satirize some of the features the scriptwriter feels are blemish on the otherwise smooth facade of the nation's character.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1986-10-18
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Remote Control
Overview: Since his mother wants to watch TV, Axel, a young auto-mechanic, must recover her remote control, accidentally taken by his punk sister Maja. During his quest, he becomes involved in the conflict between Moli, the liquor smuggler, and Aggi, a night club owner who wants to be Iceland's first mafia boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1992-09-09
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Foxtrot
Overview: Tommi and his half brother Kiddi travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker Lísa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1988-08-25
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Dream Hunters
Overview: The smell of leather, whiskey and cigars: Two young girlfriends fall in love with the same man, an adventurous young businessman. Missing, forged documents wreak havoc on the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1996-03-21
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Deep Winter
Overview: The widow has inherited half of the farm, and is in league with a businessman from the village, who wants to buy the farm. Her purpose is to get her in-laws to sell her their share, and she is prepared to use any means to gain her ends. But soon she finds herself threatened by unknown persons or forces in the menacing winter landscape, to the point where her life is at stake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1985-04-06
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Áramótaskaup 2001
Overview: A group of icelandic actors and comedians satirize the events of 2001.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2001-12-31
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Dramarama
Overview: Five stories interwine into one. A blind man hovers above the city. Everything looks set for a perfectly normal evening in Reykjavík, until the the power goes off?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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