Eggert Þorleifsson

Eggert Þorleifsson

Birth : 1952-07-18,

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Eggert Þorleifsson

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Kurteist fólk
Markell
A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.
The Higher Force
Haraldur
Ashamed for being a debt-collecting thug, David believes that he is an ugly duckling waiting to become a swan. Through an unlikely mentor he finds out that life has indeed something very special in store for him.
Laddi 6-tugur
The Priest, Deacon and Groom
No plot found
Á Þjóðvegi 48
A good couple on a Sunday drive has a car accident.
In Tune with the Time
Dúddi
Continues the story of the characters from the movie On Top (1982), now 22 years older.
In Tune with the Time
Writer
Continues the story of the characters from the movie On Top (1982), now 22 years older.
Stella Runs for Office
Council member 1
Stella and Salomon run a business together, framkoma.is. Salomon is hired by Anton Skúlason, pilot, to beautify and transform a village, that he owns. Stella stays in the town and starts teaching politicians how to act for the coming elections. By accident Stella gets involved with the Centrum party, the main rival of the Central party, and before she knows it she's head over heals in politics.
Fiasco
Samúel
Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.
Old Spice
There is an old barbershop in the center of town. This is where Einar has cut hair for half a century or so. He has seen good times and bad times but independent from contemporary tendencies, he has always maintained his own style, but in recent years he has had to deal with the inevitable, his customers grow older, and one by one they slowly disappear. One day they simply don’t show up for their scheduled haircut. But what happens when one of his customers keeps coming after he is dead.
Dream Hunters
Kvikmyndagerðarmaður
The smell of leather, whiskey and cigars: Two young girlfriends fall in love with the same man, an adventurous young businessman. Missing, forged documents wreak havoc on the lives of everyone involved.
When Dreams Come True
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.
The Resourceful Girl
A story of a ten year old girl, Erla, who finds a flute nobody else can hear and meets a boy nobody else can see. The boy turns out to be an elf who tells her that a spell has been cast on her father. Much to Erla's horror, her father is turned to stone when he's moving rocks around in the park, looking for worms. Erla's new found friend is the only one who can guide her on a search for a magic egg possessed by the big trolls in the mountains and said to be the only remedy for people who have been turned to stone.
Stuttur frakki
Egill
A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.
Sódóma Reykjavík
Aggi Flinki
Since his mother wants to watch TV, Axel, a young auto-mechanic, must recover her remote control, accidentally taken by his punk sister Maja. During his quest, he becomes involved in the conflict between Moli, the liquor smuggler, and Aggi, a night club owner who wants to be Iceland's first mafia boss.
Foxtrot
Fox Hunter
Tommi and his half brother Kiddi travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker Lísa.
Pink Bowties
No plot found
Löggulíf
Þór
Lukkuriddararnir Þór og Danni reka sérkennilega gæludýraþjónustu og eru auk þess í sambandi við alþjóðlegan fálkaræningja og ætla að selja honum kjúklinga uppdubbaða sem fálkaunga fyrir stórfé. Eftir röð einkennilegra tilviljana eru þeir komnir í lögregluna og farnir að fylgjast með hegðun borgarbúa. Við löggæslustörfin lenda þeir félagar í ótrúlegustu ævintýrum: Þeir eiga í útistöðum við glæpagengi sem samanstendur af eldri konum, komast í kast við næturdrottninguna og útigangsmann á Arnarhóli og taka þátt í æsilegasta kappakstri sem sést hefur í íslenskri kvikmynd.
Deep Winter
Einar
A young widow moves from abroad to an isolated farm in Iceland.
Dalalíf
Þór
This is the story of how Þór and Danni run a farm. They get a job running a farm for a local farmer that is going on a vacation to sweden, they of course pronouns them selfs as experts in the field of agriculture, witch they of course aren't. When they have managed to get the "hold" of things they get the brilliant idea to have a agricultural seminar for city people on the farm.
Nýtt Líf
Þór
The film is the first of three about the misadventures of two friends, Þór and Danni. Two friends working at a restaurant get fired from their jobs and after seeing an advertisement for the fishing industry of the Westman Islands, decide to go there and make some money. The islands become a perfect setting for many funny and strange situations, especially after word gets around that the two are spies from the Ministry of Fisheries.
On Top
Writer
Two rock groups, one male, the other female, decide to do a combined effort to hit the road of stardom by doing a show together. As the show is getting on the road, the lead singers of the two groups have a disagreement which brings about a parting of ways, in love as in life. A historic tour of the country begins, which through the music and performances of the two groups as well as the reactions of their audiences, reveals, beneath the comedy, glimpses of today's real competition between the sexes, seen against the background of Icelandic life.
On Top
Dúddi
Two rock groups, one male, the other female, decide to do a combined effort to hit the road of stardom by doing a show together. As the show is getting on the road, the lead singers of the two groups have a disagreement which brings about a parting of ways, in love as in life. A historic tour of the country begins, which through the music and performances of the two groups as well as the reactions of their audiences, reveals, beneath the comedy, glimpses of today's real competition between the sexes, seen against the background of Icelandic life.