The series can be described as being “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” VS “The French Revolution”. Set in 1992 at an isolated mental hospital on the outskirts of Reykjavík. The hospital, referred to as “World’s End” is a last stop for many mental patients. Elementary school teacher Einar is...
Based on a best-selling series of novels by Ævar Orn Josepsson published in Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Holland. The series is the highest rated Icelandic drama to date peaking at 67%. The story takes place in modern day Reykjavik. The four main characters are all police detectives of various ages...
In a community of around 320.000 people, 3.500 of them are on call 24/7. The story of ICE-SAR, The Icelandic Search and Rescue Teams goes back to 1928. This organization is unique in the world. It is completely based and reliant on volunteers, although still bound by laws to send...
Eg lifi....Vestmannaeyjagosi› 1973 A three part (3x40min plus a 52 min international version) documentary on the first ever volcanic eruption to happen in an urban area were 5000 inhabitants had to be evacuated in the middle of the night. The Helgafell volcano erupted for 6 months lava covering over 1/3...
Shanghaiing days refers to the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation or violence. This documentary is based on a true story of a few Icelandic deck hands from 1947 to 1970. It shows that even men who were just going to...
Ragnar Axelsson or RAX as he is commonly referred to, has worked for Morgunbladid, Iceland’s biggest newspaper since 1976. His photographs have featured in LIFE, National Geographic, Le Figaro, Stern La Vanguardia, Time and many other magazines and newspapers. In The Last Days of The Arctic we join RAX on...
The series takes place during night shifts at a quiet gas station in Reykjavik. The station manager, Georg Bjarnfredarsson, is an archetypical, over-educated communist, holding an impressive five University degrees, grabbing every chance to emphasize this fact. He lives by a strict set of rules of his own invention, mostly...
Astridur, a woman in her early thirties has just moved back to Iceland,in the spring of 2008 before the economic meltdown, from Denmark where she lived and studied, she leaves behind a way of life tainted by her mother’s liberal upbringing and her free spirited boyfriend. A recent graduate from...
Georg and Daniel are not on speaking terms after both end up in prison for their involvement in Gugga’s (their ex boss) death. Georg is soon up to his old tricks, preying on the weak, trying to find someone who will take his orders while Daniel retreats further into his...
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