Benedikt Erlingsson
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Biography: Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May 1969; Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor and theater and film director. He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994 and has been with the National Theater of Iceland for most of his career. He has directed two feature-length films, both of which have won the Nordic Council Film Prize.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Reykjavik, Iceland
Birthday: May 31, 1969
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Gender: Male
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The Boss of It All
Overview: An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-12-08
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Memphis
Overview: To start with we are led to believe the setting is a country-hotel of some sort. In the end we discover this is a State Rehabilitation Facility and everything that happens is a carefully orchestrated escape plot by some of the inmates. The film was shot on location at an isolated boarding school in Saelingsdalur in the west of Iceland. The school is used as a hotel during the summer months but the film takes place in the wintertime.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2002-01-04
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The Nail
Overview: Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert acts out and suffers the consequences.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-09-29
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Rattlesnakes
Overview: Some people have to live their lives on a constant look out for snakes. Some even have to wear boots all the time. But people in Iceland have the privilege of just wearing whatever shoes they want – without any worries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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She Talks Icelandic
Overview: The fate of a crosseyed sheep in the highlands of Iceland.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Njalssaga
Overview: TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Seagull's Laughter
Overview: Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2001-10-20
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Volcano
Overview: Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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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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Circledrawers
Overview: Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of tasks. Oleg, a special emissary has arrived at transmission central in Iceland to do the semi-centennial report on the efficiency of the Circledrawer system.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-10
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The Lost Little Caterpillar
Overview: little grub ugly - lands in a variety of adventures in her garden. A leisurely bell bumps into her, she meets a friendly worm, bullied in a bully of bees and an old grumpy spider tries to pluck her. As this is not enough, she is caught by a thief who is going to give her her breakfast for breakfast.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2002-08-29
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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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The Viking Sagas
Overview: Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about one of the most compelling of the great Viking stories - the Laxdaela Saga. This hour-long film explores how the unique literary achievements of the Saga writers were possible at a time of such immense cultural, political and religious upheaval.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-10
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Touch
Overview: Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2024-05-29
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The Dance
Overview: Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance by William Heinesen, and set on an island in 1913. Pétur (Gunnar Helgason) narrates, recalling the days when mainlanders arrived for a wedding. Flirtatious Sirsa (Pálína Jónsdottir) marries Harald (Dofri Hermannsson), son of a wealthy landowner on the island. Offshore, a ship is sinking, so the men form a rescue party, returning with the captain, the engineer, and several sailors. With a storm gathering, the engineer dies. The clergyman requests an end to the festivities as a mark of respect. Sirsa protests, but her new husband brings the celebration to a halt. The group then fragments into different activities, drunken or otherwise, and the sensual Sirsa directs her attention toward the handsome Ívar (Baldur Trausti Hreinsson). The film's score features traditional folk music.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Overview: Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-02
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Hver drap Friðrik Dór?
Overview: Villi Neto investigates the potential death of singer Friðrik Dór. On his hunt for truth Villi discovers that the conspiracy is much larger and deeper than anyone could have suspected.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2021-02-25
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Doomsday
Overview: Follows the infamous Sólborgarcase where a mother and her brother were accused of killing their newborn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Parents
Overview: The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. Einar is a stockbroker who is very successful at work but not in his personal life. For the last couple of months Einar has been living at a hotel waiting for his wife to realize the terrible mistake she made by throwing him out. Katrin Rose returns from Sweden where she has lived for eight years. In Iceland Katrin has an eleven-year-old son, brought up by his grandmother and now Katrin wants him back. Katrin gets a job as a dentist's assistant intending to make a fresh start but her troubled past catches up with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2007-01-19
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