Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Also Known As: Hilmir Snaer Gudnason
Biography: Hilmir Snær Guðnason (born 24 January 1969, in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor. He is famous in his native country and has appeared in both film and on stage. In 2000 he was named as one of European films 'Shooting Stars' by European Film Promotion. Hilmir graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994. He has played in a number of plays and musicals. He is married to Bryndís Jónsdóttir and has two daughters born in 1995 and 2009. He is best known for his roles in the films "101 Reykjavík" (2000), "The Sea" (2002), "White Night Wedding" (2008) & "Lamb" (2021). Three-time winner of the highest national Icelandic film and TV award - "EDDA" (also nominated 3 times).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Iceland
Birthday: January 24, 1969
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Gender: Male
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Erbsen auf halb 6
Overview: It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-03-04
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Angels of the Universe
Overview: The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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101 Reykjavik
Overview: Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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Crossroads
Overview: Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually takes them to an unknown emotional territory bouncing them between supposed fantasy and the vicious reality of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2001-10-31
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Flying Blind
Overview: One day a heavy smoker finally quits his habit exactly when the clock hits noon. After years of thinking about it, he has reached a point of no return. During the next hour he has to face a series of unexpected irritations. Can he resist the temptation of the seductive cigarette? Has he picked the right day for such torture?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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Kalt Borð
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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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.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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Blueprint
Overview: The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before...
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-08
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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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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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Thicker Than Water
Overview: Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 year old boy named Örn. On coincidense Pétur finds out that he is not Örn's biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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Frozen Paradise
Overview: A filmmaker joins a group of expert kayakers on a kayaking trip in the ice filled fiords of East Greenland. The group visit a remote inuit village, giving an insight into the habits of people in a magnificent country where, fonunately, the pace and stress of the Western world is still absent.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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White Night Wedding
Overview: Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2008-01-18
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The Sea
Overview: Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2002-09-13
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The Swan
Overview: When young Sól is sent to live with her distant countryside relatives for a summer, she becomes entangled in a dramatic rite of passage with a mysterious farmhand, Jón, and the farmer’s daughter, Ásta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2018-01-05
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Cold Trail
Overview: After the death of his father, a private investigator in Iceland leads his own search to discover what really happened.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2006-12-29
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Anna
Overview: A rare syndrome keeps Anna in a world of isolation. Desperate for human contact, she attempts to break free from the shackles of her uncontrollable body with surprising results.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-26
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Guy X
Overview: A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-06
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Our Own Oslo
Overview: The comedy Our Own Oslo is an everyday love story. We follow the strained courtship of the wildly differing Harald, forty year old engineer and Vilborg, an unemployed single mother. They are both tangled up in their own pasts and their attempts at love end in disaster.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Cruelty
Overview: Two girls disappear from a playground and the two best detectives in the police force try to solve the case.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2016-10-21
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The Very Last Fishing Trip
Overview: A group of friends goes on their annual salmon fishing trip to relax in the countryside. The newcomers in the group really try their hand at endurance and the tour goes quickly and safely into the sink out of new and old sins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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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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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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The Quiet Storm
Overview: A young girl breaks up from her petit bourgeoisie home and her piano lessons to lead an entirely new life, as one of the personnel at an institution for juvenile delinquents in a remote part of Northern Iceland. It is the 1970s and the young people in charge of the place are heavily into flower power, sitar music and solving problems by frank talk sessions with the delinquents. However, the hippies, who themselves despise authority, soon find their own authority under attack by the rebellious youngsters, especially after the arrival of a mysterious young girl. Then a violent incident occurs that will have a decisively detrimental effect on relations at the institution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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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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Stormland
Overview: The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-14
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Rust
Overview: After 15 years Pétur returns to Baddi's auto garage that is still located at the end of the world. Baddi lives there with his two children and worker. 15 years before terrible events occurred at the garage that forced Pétur to leave.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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La Légende du Cavalier Fantôme
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
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Witchcraft
Overview: The young and fanatical Jon is appointed pastor to a remote church in 15th century Iceland. As is custom, he marries the widow of his predecessor, a woman much older than he is. He is ardent in his fight against Satan, and the villagers don't dare to question his authority. When he falls for a beautiful young woman, Jon is convinced witchcraft is at work, and his crusade leads to cruel executions of innocent people. The stronger his lust, the deeper his madness drives him in his religious fervor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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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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Ferox
Overview: Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Brave Men's Blood
Overview: The head of the Reykjavík police department's internal affairs unit decides to use his investigation into a corrupt police lieutenant to take down a major criminal organization.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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Spooks and Spirits
Overview: Ofeigur, the passed away father of Anna Sol walks again and starts to involve her life and her boyfriend, Ingi Brjann. The young couples are going to sell the house of the dead but Ofeigur is not very happy with that and tries to convince them not to do it. The intervention of the ghost is so irritating that Ingi Brjann tries to get him away by using methods from an old magic book.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-29
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Grand Finale
Overview: A chamber orchestra is working out of a rundown theatre in Reykjavik. Financial hardship places a great strain on the band and the lead violinist, Sigrun. The annual grant from the city is coming to an end so the band hires a world renowned cellist in order to save the band. The media goes wild and money starts to flow to the band again. Too bad the cellist is not a very nice person – he is quite the assgrabber and a two faced cheater. Too late to fire the star and the grand concert that will save the band is about to begin when the cellist chokes to death – 15 minutes before the concert. The band decides to risk it all and play the concert with a dead solo artist – not really thinking about how to end such a macabre show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2024-01-26
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Wild Game
Overview: At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones on the table and agree that all incoming calls and messages will be shared with the party to prove that none of them have anything to hide
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2023-01-06
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In Front of Others
Overview: Hubert is a shy and introverted graphic designer who hasn't been too successful when approaching women. When he falls in love with Hanna, he tries to impress her by resorting to mimicking his boss, a notorious womanizer. This tactic works as an ice-breaker, but soon things get out of control, with unforeseen consequences.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2016-02-26
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Agnes
Overview: In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds. Agnes is a servant in the house of the county sheriff. There she is constantly sexually harassed by him and treated with contempt by his wife. Agnes falls in love with Natan, a self taught homoeopathic doctor. The sheriff takes revenge on Natan by making it illegal for him to practice his profession. The dramatic relationship between the three main characters ultimately leads to a fatal web of events where a love affair turns into a nightmare of brutality and destruction.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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The Biggest Rescue
Overview: Friends Sveppi and Villi discover that an old nemesis has built a doomsday machine that can trigger earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. With the help of their friend Gói, they manage to sneak into his evil lair. But this is only half the battle - to save the country they'll have to destroy the machine.
Genres: Family
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2014-10-30
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Woman at War
Overview: Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2018-05-22
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Fullir Vasar
Overview: The film deals with four men who rob a bank to pay tens of millions of debts one of them to Iceland's most dangerous man, Gulla's car dealership. To help Arnari out of the pinch, his three friends decide to help him rob robbery, gripped and armed. What could possibly go wrong?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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A White, White Day
Overview: In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2019-07-25
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The Last Fishing Trip
Overview: Six friends on their annual fishing trip realize leaving wives, work and worries at home is really hard work. What was supposed to be a cozy fishing trip, turns out to be a downward spiral to Hell. Let's go fishing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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On Top Down Under
Overview: On Top - Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer ... to bathing in the hot springs ... to when they first met ... and embraced. Down Under - Australia, the desert, a blistering heat wave. His pickup stops at an icehouse ... he lays the blocks neatly on the buckboard ... and drives off haunted by a aching memory. Without dialogue or comment, save for verses from a sonnet by John Keats, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson links the thoughts, the emotions, the sensual longing of young lovers at opposite ends of the world. A tone poem, a collage of sight and sound.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2002-08-31
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Lamb
Overview: An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2021-08-12
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Reykjavik Guesthouse: Rent a Bike
Overview: Jóhann is a thirty year old guesthouse owner in downtown Reykjavík who has isolated himself socially after the death of his father. The guesthouse has no visitors until his nine year old neighbour starts visiting Jóhann which leads to a unlikely friendship.
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Original Language: is
Release Date: 2002-03-25
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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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Dawn
Overview: A father and his child wake up from a bad dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2012-12-08
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Mamma Gógó
Overview: Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While Gógó is continuously getting herself into trouble, of the kind only a person with Alzheimer can, the son, the director, is struggling with financial troubles after his film Children of Nature has flopped in the cinema. As Gógó‘s disease progresses her family decides that it is best for her to move to a nursing home. Gógó and her deceased husband, who appears on the scene, are not happy with that decision. The director is dependent on others when it comes to his finances and when Gógó settles into the nursing home he decides to sell his mother’s apartment and valuable artwork but the profits of the sale help him to get by.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Alma
Overview: After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2021-05-07
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House For Sale
Overview: A real estate agent struggles to sell his own house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2024-09-28
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God's blessings
Overview: Guðaveigar is about a group of Icelandic priests who set out on a mission to find the perfect mass wine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2024-12-26
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