The background of Devil’s Island is the Nissen hut neighborhood Thulekampur in Reykjavik in 1960. The film is based on the bestseller by Einar Kárason: ‘Þar sem Djöflaneyjan rís’ and ‘Gulleyjan’. The background of Devil’s Island is the Nissen hut neighbourhood Thulekampur in Reykjavik in 1960. In the forground, the big family of Caroline the fortune teller – a grandiose and spiteful old woman who is known to possess witch-craft skill, but shelters all those who seek her help. In the beginning of the film, Gógó, her only daughter, is going to marry an American from the NATO base in Keflavik, and is going to move West and then this common people gets to know the American world culture. The son of Gógó, the jewel of his grandma, the fortune teller, the big charmer Baddi then visits his mother in the US and is a completly diffrent person when he comes back: wearing a leather jacket, brillantine is his hair, using rock-phrases regularly, driving a big flashy American car. The film is based on the bestseller by Einar Kárason: ‘Þar sem Djöflaneyjan rís’ and ‘Gulleyjan’. The film recieved a great praise from both audience and critics when it was premiered in 1996 and is one the the greatest box office hits in Iceland, almost one-third of the Icelandic nation saw the film in cinema. The film boasts a group of fine actors and movie making people who tell a story that has deep roots the the Icelandic psyche. The result is one of the gems of Icelandic cinema. English subtitles.
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