Edda Heiðrún Backman
Birth : 1957-11-27, Akranes, Iceland
Death : 2016-10-01
History
Edda Heiðrún Backman was an Icelandic actress, musician and painter.
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Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
2002's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.
Kona Páls
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
A little girl "kidnaps" her half-sister in order to get the attention of her father who left her mother years ago for another woman (who gave birth to her half-sister)
The staff at the bureau of values may be the greatest bureaucrats in the world, but they have the most colourful dreams, not to mention their nightmare Rosie, is like a breath of fresh air when she comes into the office just before closing-time, raising everybody’s spirits. Live action and animation combined in a comedy.
Mamma Bigga
This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.
A story in the form of a fairy tale, that tells of the time the Princess calls upon her hero to slay the modern day dragon. The film is unusual in the way it portrays ecological issues in a highly artistic way.
Mother
Three tales of children each in a different nothern country, Greenland, the Pharoe Islands and Iceland.
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Lilla discovers that she'll be getting a new doll for christmas so she decides to throw the old one away, but once she falls asleep bad dreams start to haunt her.
Willy, seven years old, is more interested in books than sports while his father, ex-football star, is determined to make a football player out of him. Willy realizes that he cannot live up to his father's expectations but feels compelled to give him what he always wanted. One day, Willy finds a solution to the problem.
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During a holiday in Italy, a young German falls in love with an Icelandic actress. Until the happy ending, they have to go the wrong ways and detours, which are also related to the dreamlike "mission" of the acting group.
"One of the highlights of the Saarbrücken fest and a prizewinner there, Lutz Konermann's "Black And Without Sugar" is full of observations and tongue-in-cheek twists. It also scores on camera and direction" - "Lutz Konermann and Edda Backman make for an ideally amusing couple from the start"
