Edda Björgvinsdóttir
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 13, 1952
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Gender: Female
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Quake
Overview: Saga gets hit by a fierce epileptic attack walking in a public park with her six-year-old son resulting in a total memory loss. Afraid of being considered unable to take care of her son, Saga attempts to hide her state from others and occupies herself digging for the answers she needs from within. As she struggles to gather bits and pieces from her forgotten life, repressed memories that Saga unconsciously blocked as a child suddenly start to come back, revealing a painful truth about herself and her past.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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Pink Bowties
Overview: No plot found
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1985-12-26
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Let Me Fall
Overview: When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross again, and a reckoning between them becomes unavoidable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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When the Raven Flies
Overview: Vikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Twenty years later the boy returns to Iceland take his revenge.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1984-02-04
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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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Pearls and Swine
Overview: Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two have quarreled. Marta can't abide mom's rebellion or the rival bakery's success, so she inveigles Finnbogi to invest in porn toys without telling Lisa. Where does he get the cash? From his son Bjartmar, who has promised Russian sailors he'll arrange the purchase of ten Landas. The Russians are coming to collect their cars, Finnbogi hasn't sold a single dildo, hard-bitten Marta plans one more nasty trick. How can Lisa get her cruise?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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The White Viking
Overview: Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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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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Reykjavik, Reykjavik
Overview: A dramatized documentary about the capital of Iceland, Reykjavík. The city is seen through the eyes of a visitor, a Canadian girl of Icelandic descent, who marvels at the many charms and peculiarities of Reykjavík. The film was made on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the city.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1986-08-19
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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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The Sacred Mound
Overview: A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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Under the Tree
Overview: When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2017-09-06
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Golden Sands
Overview: A political comedy about the effects of the apparent discovery of gold in the sands near a small community on Iceland's south coast. Troops from the American NATO base "invade" the territory, journalists from Reykjavik arrive and the morals of the local inhabitants quickly turn topsy-turvy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1984-12-26
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Pity the Lovers
Overview: Óskar and Maggi are two brothers, longing for love but seemingly doomed to stay single. Óskar shies from relationships but is secretly in love with his childhood sweetheart Anna, engaged to another and safely out of reach. Maggi on the other hand is overly eager and goes from one relationship to another, hoping for eternal love each time. A film about the complexity of human relations and the searching for love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2019-01-27
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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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Grandma Hófí
Overview: Senior citizens Hófí and Pétur feel discarded by a system that has no use for them. They're tired of living in a poorly retirement home and plan to rob a bank to finally buy a place for themselves. Standing in their way are both hardened criminals and inept cops, but these are the most sly seniors around and they're going to show everyone that you can still teach and old dog new tricks...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2020-07-24
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Áramótaskaup: 1994
Overview: 1994's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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Shadowtown
Overview: A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2020-03-01
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Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh
Overview: After Lára, 13, loses both her father and brother in an accident, she discovers that her father used to be a member of a theatre group at a local theatre. In order to keep his memory alive, she joins the company. The company consists of eccentric and playful elders who introduce Lára to the magic of theatre and the importance of play. While Lára struggles to piece together the fractured life she now shares with her mother, she decides to help the company in their attempt to save the theatre with a big hit play. But evil and corrupt forces want it gone forever.
Genres: Family
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Love in a Supermarket
Overview: Albert works in the meat section of a convenience store who falls in love with a woman who frequents the store.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1986-06-17
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