This person called Sigurður Sverrir Pálsson which was wonderful in Camera is amazing?

Anti-American Wins Nobel Prize

Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, but spent his youth in the country. From the age of seventeen on, he traveled and lived abroad, chiefly on the European continent. He was influenced by expressionism and other modern currents in Germany and France. In the mid-twenties he converted to Catholicism, but Laxness's religious period did not last long; during a visit to America he became attracted to socialism, which would later on get him into trouble with the Icelandic authorities and eventually blacklisted in the U.S regardless of excellent sales and good reviews.

0.0

Year:

2011

Small Mountain

Not expecting his son back today, Emil is brought to face his past, his family, his community, after he finds himself stuck upon the small mountain. This will be a day to remember.

3.3

Year:

2008

Cold Light

What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.

5.8

Year:

2004

Passio: A Painter's Psalm of Colours

This film is about the painter Sveinn Björnsson (1925-1997), and his struggles to perfect his art. Following a wide-ranging exhibition at the Kjarvalsstaðir Art Gallery in 1989, he has become tired of the fantasy style which he had been developing for thirty years. What needed to happen in order for him to create something new? What sacrifices would it involve? This film is about that struggle experienced by creative artists. The film is not a biography, or a learned review of the painter's style, but it does show a side of the man which very few see. One evening, he feels he is not alone in his studio; it feels as if some being is there who wants to help him.

0.0

Year:

2001

Passio: A Painter's Psalm of Colours

This film is about the painter Sveinn Björnsson (1925-1997), and his struggles to perfect his art. Following a wide-ranging exhibition at the Kjarvalsstaðir Art Gallery in 1989, he has become tired of the fantasy style which he had been developing for thirty years. What needed to happen in order for him to create something new? What sacrifices would it involve? This film is about that struggle experienced by creative artists. The film is not a biography, or a learned review of the painter's style, but it does show a side of the man which very few see. One evening, he feels he is not alone in his studio; it feels as if some being is there who wants to help him.

0.0

Year:

2001

Ikingut

In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed

6.7

Year:

2000

No Trace

Five friends gather for a celebration that spins wildly out of control. Something goes terribly wrong. Next morning, national sports icon, swimmer Gulli Björns wakes up beside the naked body of a woman. No one knows who she is. No one knows where she comes from. Not his girlfriend. Nor his best buddy. No one remembers what happened. Now, as the questions fly fast and furious, Björns must wander through a mirrored maze of half-truth and full-blown lies to discover the shocking truth in a swirl of deception, manipulation and murder.

4.0

Year:

1998

No Trace

Five friends gather for a celebration that spins wildly out of control. Something goes terribly wrong. Next morning, national sports icon, swimmer Gulli Björns wakes up beside the naked body of a woman. No one knows who she is. No one knows where she comes from. Not his girlfriend. Nor his best buddy. No one remembers what happened. Now, as the questions fly fast and furious, Björns must wander through a mirrored maze of half-truth and full-blown lies to discover the shocking truth in a swirl of deception, manipulation and murder.

4.0

Year:

1998

Maria

María has fled her home of Germany in the wake of the aftermath of the second world war and comes to Iceland to work on a farm.

4.0

Year:

1997

Tears of Stone

About Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married the daughter of an industrialist, Annie, who is also a concert pianist. This era was frustrating for Leifs because his works were seldom performed. Iceland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995

5.6

Year:

1995

Benjamin, the Dove

Benjamin Dove is a story of a group of friends who form their own little round table of knights. The first thing they see in the morning is what they are to be called. Benjamin saw a dove first thing, hence, Benjamin Dove. However problems start to occur as some boys are outcast, some are kicked out, new gangs are created, rivalry and chaos ensue and finally it ends with a death. A death no one in the sleepy town expected.

6.9

Year:

1995

The Sky Palace

Emily is a young boy that dreams about owning a dog and he starts working so he can save up to buy one. Meanwhile his family are dealing with money problems.

4.2

Year:

1994

Swan

Swan is an old man from the country. He comes alone to the city to get medical treatment. But the city is not welcoming. Nobody wants to have anything to do with him. Then he discovers that it might have to do with his clothes - if he just had clothes like those gentlemen he sees in the streets.

0.0

Year:

1993

Remote Control

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.

6.4

Year:

1992

Verstöðin Ísland

The film is divided in four parts and traces the history of the Icelandic fishing industry from the Middle Ages to the present day.

0.0

Year:

1992

Verstöðin Ísland

The film is divided in four parts and traces the history of the Icelandic fishing industry from the Middle Ages to the present day.

0.0

Year:

1992

Sjómaðurinn, spákonan, blómasalinn, skóarinn, málarinn og Sveinn

No plot synopsis found anywhere online.

0.0

Year:

1991

Sjómaðurinn, spákonan, blómasalinn, skóarinn, málarinn og Sveinn

No plot synopsis found anywhere online.

0.0

Year:

1991

The Icelandic Herring Industry

This corporate documentary describes one year in the production of herring, starting with marketing speculations and research of the year's possible catch. It shows the herring caught at sea, landed, salted, and tended to until it is exported after passing rigorous quality control. Intertwined with this story is the history of the herring industry in Iceland.

0.0

Year:

1987

The Icelandic Herring Industry

This corporate documentary describes one year in the production of herring, starting with marketing speculations and research of the year's possible catch. It shows the herring caught at sea, landed, salted, and tended to until it is exported after passing rigorous quality control. Intertwined with this story is the history of the herring industry in Iceland.

0.0

Year:

1987

The Icelandic Herring Industry

This corporate documentary describes one year in the production of herring, starting with marketing speculations and research of the year's possible catch. It shows the herring caught at sea, landed, salted, and tended to until it is exported after passing rigorous quality control. Intertwined with this story is the history of the herring industry in Iceland.

0.0

Year:

1987

The Icelandic Herring Industry

This corporate documentary describes one year in the production of herring, starting with marketing speculations and research of the year's possible catch. It shows the herring caught at sea, landed, salted, and tended to until it is exported after passing rigorous quality control. Intertwined with this story is the history of the herring industry in Iceland.

0.0

Year:

1987

Reykjavik, Reykjavik

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.

0.0

Year:

1986

With Compliments from Iceland

All marketing is done through Coldwater Seafood Corporation, which is an affiliated company of the Icelandic Freezing Plants Corp. Coldwater also own and operate two fish plants in the USA, where they produce great varieties of processes sea-products. The film fallows fish from Iceland to the States, shows the marketing and distribution system and fallows the fish through quality control, processing and finally the distribution.

0.0

Year:

1982

With Compliments from Iceland

All marketing is done through Coldwater Seafood Corporation, which is an affiliated company of the Icelandic Freezing Plants Corp. Coldwater also own and operate two fish plants in the USA, where they produce great varieties of processes sea-products. The film fallows fish from Iceland to the States, shows the marketing and distribution system and fallows the fish through quality control, processing and finally the distribution.

0.0

Year:

1982

With Compliments from Iceland

All marketing is done through Coldwater Seafood Corporation, which is an affiliated company of the Icelandic Freezing Plants Corp. Coldwater also own and operate two fish plants in the USA, where they produce great varieties of processes sea-products. The film fallows fish from Iceland to the States, shows the marketing and distribution system and fallows the fish through quality control, processing and finally the distribution.

0.0

Year:

1982

Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli

Based on the saga of Gísli Súrsson, one of the Icelandic Sagas.

5.4

Year:

1981

Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli

Based on the saga of Gísli Súrsson, one of the Icelandic Sagas.

5.4

Year:

1981

From the Icecold Deep

Educational film about the freezing industry in Iceland in 1981. This documentary illustrates the diffrent stages in processing of fish, from the moment of catching it to the packaging of the fillets for export. Special attention is drawn to the careful handling of the fish and quality control.

0.0

Year:

1981

From the Icecold Deep

Educational film about the freezing industry in Iceland in 1981. This documentary illustrates the diffrent stages in processing of fish, from the moment of catching it to the packaging of the fillets for export. Special attention is drawn to the careful handling of the fish and quality control.

0.0

Year:

1981

From the Icecold Deep

Educational film about the freezing industry in Iceland in 1981. This documentary illustrates the diffrent stages in processing of fish, from the moment of catching it to the packaging of the fillets for export. Special attention is drawn to the careful handling of the fish and quality control.

0.0

Year:

1981

Dot Dot Comma Dash

Various events of importance to the nation and to individual persons during the cold war and from about 1960 emerge as fragments of the memory of a little boy learning about life, about divorce, military occupation, the Beatles, little girls and death.

0.0

Year:

1980

Land and Sons

An Icelandic farmer's son decides to leave his farm, fiance, friends, dog and horse, during the depression before World War II, to start a new life somewhere else.

6.2

Year:

1980

The King of the River

This documentary shows how Icelanders maintain the salmon stock in their rivers. It includes scenes from salmon fishing in the river Laxá í Kjós, the release of parr in a river called Svartá in the Skagafjördur district and the netting of salmon in the rivers Blanda and Ölfusá.

0.0

Year:

1978

Sjávarþorp

A documentary about life in a fishing village showing the people's dependence on the sea (filmed in Ólafsvík).

0.0

Year:

1975

Sjávarþorp

A documentary about life in a fishing village showing the people's dependence on the sea (filmed in Ólafsvík).

0.0

Year:

1975

Sálin í útlegð er

A guided tour to places to Hallgrímur Pétursson. (A famours Icelandic poet of psalms.) The film includes some staged sequences from his life.

0.0

Year:

1974

Sálin í útlegð er

A guided tour to places to Hallgrímur Pétursson. (A famours Icelandic poet of psalms.) The film includes some staged sequences from his life.

0.0

Year:

1974

Eyja Gríms í Norðurhafi

A documentary film about the remote island of Grímsey, the people that live there and the islands copious birdlife.

0.0

Year:

1974

Undir jökli

A film about the Snæfellsnes glacier and various mysterious phenomena which are associated with this area.

0.0

Year:

1973

Undir jökli

A film about the Snæfellsnes glacier and various mysterious phenomena which are associated with this area.

0.0

Year:

1973

Undir jökli

A film about the Snæfellsnes glacier and various mysterious phenomena which are associated with this area.

0.0

Year:

1973

Grímur and Grillo

No description found

0.0

Year:

1972

50 Years of Electricity

A film made on the 50 year anniversary of the Reykjavík Power Plant, which discusses their main activities and future projects.

0.0

Year:

1972

Huldubyggðin í heiðinni

A film about the activities of the US military base in Keflavík, Iceland.

0.0

Year:

1972

The Occupation Years

Tells of the years during the allied occupation of Iceland from 1940-1945. While a number of scenes depict daily life in Iceland (a combination of live footage and staged sequences), a substantial part of the film is concerned with military activities in Iceland and abroad, and the political development which lead to the proclamation of the Republic of Iceland in 1944. The film includes archive footage from English, American, German and Norwegian sources and incorporates interviews with people who lived through the era.

0.0

Year:

1967