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Fíaskó
''Fíaskó'' (English title: ''Fiasco'') is an Icelandic film written and directed by Ragnar Bragason and released in 2000. Synopsis The film is divided into three chapters and looks at three generations of a family living under one roof in Reykjavík. The first part focuses on pensioner Karl Barðdal. The second is about his granddaughter, Júlía Barðdal. The third part deals with Steingerður Barðdal and her relationship with the preacher Samúel. Cast and characters * Margrét Ákadóttir as Steingerður Barðdal * Silja Hauksdóttir as Júlía Barðdal * Róbert Arnfinnsson as Karl Barðdal * Eggert Þorleifsson as Samúel * Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson as Hilmar * Kristbjörg Kjeld as Helga * Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (born 13 March 1973) is an Icelandic-American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for ''Children'', '' Trapped'', '' The Deep'', '' Lady Dynamite'', and ''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty''. Early life Ólafu ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnar Bragason
Ragnar Bragason (born 15 September 1971) is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Droplaug was born in Súðavík, Iceland. He is best known for his films '' Börn'' (''Children'') and ''Foreldrar'' (''Parents''), both Edda Award winners, and the popular TV series ''Næturvaktin'' (''The Night Shift''), ''Dagvaktin'' (''The Day Shift''), and ''Fangavaktin'' (''The Prison Shift''). Ragnar grew up in the village of Súðavík, in a family of fishermen and farmers. He got his start making short videos in college. After directing many music videos, shorts and documentaries, he released his first feature-film ''Fíaskó'' (''Fiasco'') in 2000. In his earlier work he used traditional ways of writing and directing, but more recently Ragnar has followed methods similar to those of Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes of working with his actors to create characters and screenplays through improvisation. His work has been nominated seventy-one times for the Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eggert Þorleifsson
Eggert Þorleifsson (born 18 July 1952) is an Icelandic stage and film actor. He is best known for his acting in the ''Líf'' trilogy and '' Með allt á hreinu''. Personal life Eggert is the younger brother of director and politician Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir. Selected filmography * '' Með allt á hreinu'' (1982) - Dúddi * '' Nýtt Líf'' (1983) - Þór Magnússon * ''Dalalíf'' (1984) - Þór Magnússon * ''Skammdegi'' (1985) - Einar * ''Löggulíf'' (1985) - Þór Magnússon * ''Stella í orlofi'' (1986) - Ágúst Læjónsmaður * ''Sódóma Reykjavík'' (1992) - Aggi Flinki * '' Stuttur Frakki'' (1993) - Egill * ''Fíaskó'' (2000) - Samúel * '' Villiljós'' (2001) - Albert * '' Í takt við tímann'' (2004) - Dúddi * '' Stóra planið'' (2008) - Haraldur * ''Kurteist fólk'' (2011) - Markell * ''Gullregn'' (2020) - Anton References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thorleifsson, Eggert Living people 1952 births Eggert Þorleifsson Eggert Þorleifsson Eggert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristbjörg Kjeld
Kristbjörg Kjeld (born 18 June 1935) is an Icelandic actress. She appeared in more than thirty films since 1962. Kjeld won the 2010 Edda Award for Best Leading Actress for her performance as Mamma Gógó in ''Mamma Gógó ''Mamma Gógó'' is a 2010 cinema of Iceland, Icelandic drama film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd ...''. Selected filmography References External links * 1935 births Living people Icelandic film actresses {{Iceland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (born 13 March 1973) is an Icelandic-American actor, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for ''Children'', '' Trapped'', '' The Deep'', ''Lady Dynamite'', and ''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty''. Early life Ólafur was born to Icelandic parents in Connecticut, United States, where his father studied medicine. His family returned to Iceland when he was around four years old. Career Ólafur graduated from The Icelandic Drama School in 1998. Afterward, he became involved in numerous productions with the National Theatre of Iceland and Reykjavík City Theatre, also working with various independent theatre groups. He is one of the founders of Vesturport Theatre in Reykjavík. Ólafur is best known internationally for his role as Andri, the chief of police in the small town of Seyðisfjörður in the east of Iceland, in the series '' Trapped''. Baltasar Kormákur, who devised the series, has said that the actor was chosen because he was not a typical lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barði Jóhannsson
Barði Jóhannsson (born 10 September 1975) is an Icelandic musician, composer, writer, TV show host (of the surrealist Icelandic TV show ''Konfekt''), clothing designer and film director. He is mostly known for his work with the groups Bang Gang, Lady & Bird (a side project with Keren Ann) and Starwalker, a collaboration with Jean-Benoît Dunckel. In addition to these musical outlets, Barði has been involved in a number of other audio-visual projects. Most significantly, he has written music for commercials and for the National Theatre of Iceland and Centre Dramatique d'Orleans (Museum of the Sea by Marie Darrieussecq). He has appeared at the Festival Aix En Provence and he co-produced and co-directed short films. Barði has also written scores for movies and documentaries, such as '' Haxan'' (performed by the Bulgarian symphony orchestra) and Óskar Jónasson’s '' Reykjavik Rotterdam'' (2009), which won Best Original Film Score at the Icelandic Edda Film awards and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zik Zak Filmworks
Zik Zak Filmworks is an Icelandic film production company based in Reykjavík. The company was founded in 1995 by Skúli Fr. Malmquist and Thorir S. Sigurjonsson. It produces feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Filmography * ''Last and First Men'' (2020) * ''Óskin'' * '' Pabbahelgar'' * ''The Professor and the Madman'' * ''To Plant a Flag'' * '' And Breathe Normally'' * '' I Remember You'' * ''Búi'' * ''Cubs'' * '' The Together Project'' * ''Z for Zachariah'' * ''Paris of the North'' * ''Harry & Heimir: First time Is Murder'' * ''Megaphone'' 16 years til summer * ''Black's Game'' * ''Babybird, Unborn'' * ''Volcano'' * ''Gauragangur'' * ''Undercurrent'' * ''The Good Heart'' * ''Electronica Reykjavik'' * ''Skrapp út'' * ''Misty Mountain'' * ''Thanks'' * ''Skröltormar'' * ''The Boss of It All'' * '' The Last Winter'' * '' Dark Horse'' * '' Screaming Masterpiece'' * '' The Last Farm'' * '' Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)'' * ''Silny Kafe'' * '' Jargo'' * ''Noi the Albino'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (born 12 May 1954; pronounced ), sometimes credited as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, is an Icelandic film director and producer. Biography Fridriksson started his film making career with experimental films and documentaries in the early 1980s. In 1987, he founded The Icelandic Film Corporation that became Iceland's most important film production company. The company produces his films and works with other Icelandic directors as well as producers. His international reputation led the company to build a network of internationally well-established co-production partner companies, including Lars von Trier's Zentropa and Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope. He made his debut as a film director with ''White Whales (film), Skytturnar'' (''White Whales'') in 1987. His second feature ''Children of Nature'' (1991) was nominated for an Academy Awards, Oscar as Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film (it was also Iceland's first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Films
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was '' Mission: Impossible 2''. Domestically in North America, '' Gladiator'' won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe). ''Dinosaur'' was the most expensive film of 2000 and a box-office success. __TOC__ Overview 2000 saw the releases of the first installment of popular film series ''X-Men'', ''Final Destination'', ''Scary Movie'', and '' Meet the Parents''. Among the films based on TV shows are '' Mission: Impossible 2'', ''Traffic'', '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'', '' Charlie's Angels'' and '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' Among the movies based on books (and TV shows) is ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. The most acclaimed films of the year are '' Gladiator''; ''Traffic''; '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''; '' American Psycho''; ''Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream,'' and ''Erin Brockovich''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Icelandic-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Ragnar Bragason
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
