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Noted Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson directs this darkly humorous tale about a man's descent into mental disease and self-destruction. Screenwriter Einar Mar Gudmundsson adapted the script from his book about the true story of his brother. Paul (Ingvar E. Sigurdsson) lives with his parents, dreams about being a painter, and struggles to court a young lass who is above his class status. Complaining of a pain "in the heart," he starts to exhibit bizarre, occasionally violent behavior -- until eventually his parents are forced to commit him. In the sanitarium, he encounters a number of colorful characters -- Vicktor (Bjorn Jorundur Fridbjornsson) thinks that he's Hitler, Peter (Hilmer Snaer Gudnason) took way too many drugs, and Oli Beatle (Baltasar Kormakur) believes that he wrote all of the Fab Four's sundry hits
Audio/Hljóð: Icelandic
Subtitles/Texti: English
Overview
User Rating:7.5/10 IMDB
Director:Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Writer:Einar Guðmundsson (novel)
Release Date:1 January 2000 (Iceland) more
Genre:Biography | Drama more
Cast:
Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson ... Páll (as Ingvar E. Sigurðsson)
Baltasar Kormákur ... Óli
Hilmir Snær Guðnason ... Pétur
Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson ... Viktor
Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir ... Móðir Páls
Theódór Júlíusson ... Faðir Páls
Friðrik Steinn Friðriksson ... Haraldur
Sara Margrét Mikaelsdóttir ... Svana
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir ... Dagný
Þór Tulinius ... Rögnvaldur
Hrönn Steingrímsdóttir ... Móðir Dagnýjar
Pétur Einarsson ... Brynjólfur
Egill Ólafsson ... Lúðvík
Pálmi Gestsson ... Vilhjálmur
Jón Karl Helgason ... Eysteinn
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