Þorsteinn Bachmann
Nacimiento : 1965-10-25, Iceland
Historia
Þorsteinn Bachmann (born 25 October 1965) is an Icelandic actor. He is known for his role as Móri in Life in a Fishbowl. In 2015 he won an Edda Award for that same role.
Bachmann grew up in the Fossvogur area of Reykjavík, Iceland before moving to Breiðholt when he was 10 years old. He did not do well in school in the early years. Looking back he remembers, that he was barely able to read or write before changing schools from Fossvogur to the one in Breiðholt.
Bachmann graduated from the Icelandic Drama School in 1991. Since graduation he has worked with theatre groups in Reykjavík and Akureyri and was president of the latter for a few years. He has held many acting courses, and has served as a teacher at both the Icelandic Drama School and the Icelandic Film School. In 2013 he worked with the National Theatre of Iceland.
Before every premiere Bachmann goes to the gym, goes swimming and finishes off with a sauna. "This is something I've always done and goes with every film or stage premiere".
Guðmundur
The village is brimming with stories and if you listen closely it might tell you a few. Perhaps the one about the businessman who dreams in Latin, or the one about the delicate boy who carves moorland birds, or maybe the one of the open-air sexual affair that has explosive consequences.
Valur Adalsteins
A group of friends goes on their annual salmon fishing trip to relax in the countryside. The newcomers in the group really try their hand at endurance and the tour goes quickly and safely into the sink out of new and old sins.
Captain Amdrup
Basada en hechos reales. 1909. La expedición danesa Alabama, liderada por el Capitán Ejnar Mikkelsen (Coster-Waldau) emprende una misión para demostrar que Groenlandia no está dividida en dos trozos de tierra y refutar el reclamo de Estados Unidos sobre el territorio. Dejando atrás a su tripulación, le acompañará en el viaje, que llegarán a realizar incluso a pie por el hielo, el inexperto Iver Iversen (Joe Cole).
Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.
Valur
Six friends on their annual fishing trip realize leaving wives, work and worries at home is really hard work. What was supposed to be a cozy fishing trip, turns out to be a downward spiral to Hell. Let's go fishing.
Einar
When a new neighbour arrives at Rannveig´s doorstep, her frustrated everyday life suddenly changes. The cloud of hopelessness that surrounds her marriage and her relationship with her almost adult daughter lifts temporarily but soon the family is forced to confront new and unknown challenges in their relationship.
Inga, una agricultora de mediana edad, se rebela contra la poderosa cooperativa local. Intenta sumar apoyos entre los demás agricultores del lugar para denunciar la corrupción de la cooperativa, pero se encuentra con una sólida resistencia que le obliga a desafiar la relación de dependencia y lealtad que vincula a la comunidad con el monopolio. Inga tendrá que utilizar todos sus recursos y toda su astucia para desembarazarse del control de la cooperativa y conseguir vivir de acuerdo con sus principios.
Þekktur maður
An elderly woman feels that she's leading a too lonely a life so she decides to turn things around.
Hannes
La vida de la adolescente Magnea cambia cuando ve a Stella por primera vez. Magnea, una estudiante brillante y deportista, deja atrás su entorno acomodado, por la fascinación, personalidad y la existencia poco convencional de Stella.
Hörður
En Islandia, las vidas de dos mujeres se cruzan mientras ambas están atrapadas en circunstancias imprevistas. Una es una madre islandesa en apuros, la otra una solicitante de asilo de Guinea-Bissau. Entre ambas se formará un delicado vínculo.
Konrad
Un hombre es acusado de adulterio por su prometida, viéndose obligado a trasladarse a casa de sus padres. Mientras lucha por la custodia de su hija de cuatro años, se ve progresivamente involucrado en una disputa entre sus progenitores y los vecinos de estos, a propósito de un viejo y hermoso árbol.
The job of a prisonguard is a strange one; they work on the border of free society and prison. This documentary follows the lives of the prisonguards as they do their job of guarding the prisoners.
Ragnar
Un hombre está dispuesto a todo con tal de sacar a su hija del mundo de las drogas y los hurtos, ignorando que el peligro se puede encontrar en lugares totalmente inesperados.
Eiríkur
Gudjón has led a safe life. Suddenly faced with retirement and growing older, he is forced to take a good, hard look at his marriage. A dramatic but often lighthearted story about life at a crossroads and the meaning of it all.
Móri
El destino unirá las vidas de tres personajes en Reykjavik. Móri, refugiado en el alcohol para olvidar una tragedia que sucedió hace 20 años; Eik, madre soltera que ejerce de prostituta para poder llegar a fin de mes y Sölvi, buen padre y esposo que se ve inmerso en los entramados de las instituciones financieras.
Police Sergeant
Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.
Prime minister
Ex-family man, avid womanizer, heavy-drinking, parliamentarian, Leifur, is forced to go into rehab by his political rival, following a well publicized art exhibition brawl. Full of denial, Leifur throws a party before checking in, but when it´s time to leave – very few do, turning the night into an adventure exclusively for those old enough to vote.
Bjarni
Marta and Johann, a retired couple, invest their life savings with banker Bjarni who has promised to double their money in a convoluted financial scheme. However, they lose it, and subsequently, the couple decide to pay a visit to Bjarni and take matters into their own hands.
The tale of Goldilocks is sometimes viewed as a cautionary tale that imparts a lesson about the hazards of wandering off and exploring unknown territory. The point about safety and shelter. But in its essence it was a tale about an intruder who could not control herself when encountering the possessions of others.
Ari
Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
Vörubílstjóri
Two employees of the Icelandic Road Administration spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads as they both find themselves at a crossroads in their lives.
Producer
The battle of two great chess players to mentally overpower one another takes on a dimension of life-or-death physicality as their duel begins to echo with the violent sounds of warfare from centuries past.
Chess player 1
The battle of two great chess players to mentally overpower one another takes on a dimension of life-or-death physicality as their duel begins to echo with the violent sounds of warfare from centuries past.
Toni Group
The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.
Gummi Gumm
The time is 20 years and a few months to the millennium, and the unrecognized, self-proclaimed genius Orm Odins has to deal with the age-old existentialist dilemma that is teenage hood. With his final exams looming, his hormones in overdrive and love just around the corner what can a great poet do to survive? Our setting is Reykjavik in the eighties, a city that is going through a growth spur not unlike our eloquent hero. The mullet is just about to put its mark on a unsuspecting generation, there is no TV on Thursdays, only one radio station, beer is still and outlawed commodity and somewhere within the city limits the first female president in the world will see has a dream.
Benedikt
Gabriel tiene dieciséis, es gay y está confuso. Junto con algunos de sus amigos más cercanos, está tratando de averiguar quién es y dónde está en un mundo siempre cambiante y complicado..
Co-Producer
Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert acts out and suffers the consequences.
Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert acts out and suffers the consequences.
Three children take their grandfather to the graveyard to visit their dead grandmother. When they find out that granddad is tired of living and is actually waiting to die the children get confused, especially the youngest one. Granddad has to find a way to explain to her that death is not the worst thing in the world, which starts a chain of bizarre events. This becomes a learning full experience for the youngest one, even though it leads to a tragic ending.
Keli
A young girl breaks up from her petit bourgeoisie home and her piano lessons to lead an entirely new life, as one of the personnel at an institution for juvenile delinquents in a remote part of Northern Iceland. It is the 1970s and the young people in charge of the place are heavily into flower power, sitar music and solving problems by frank talk sessions with the delinquents. However, the hippies, who themselves despise authority, soon find their own authority under attack by the rebellious youngsters, especially after the arrival of a mysterious young girl. Then a violent incident occurs that will have a decisively detrimental effect on relations at the institution.
Steini
Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 year old boy named Örn. On coincidense Pétur finds out that he is not Örn's biological father.
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Georg
Ottar Thor es el futbolista estrella del equipo de fútbol de Reikiavik KR. Al hacerse pública su homosexualidad en la prensa, su entorno comienza a mostrarse hostil. Pronto se ve relegado a ocupar el banquillo durante los partidos. La situación le hace desistir de sus antiguos compañeros, abandona el equipo y comienza a jugar con un equipo amateur de jugadores gays.
Dagur
A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father but he's too preoccupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to loser friends talk about what Sylvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.
Geiri
A business man and weekend dad is getting worn down by family trouble, business failure and the continuous loss of his favorite football team. He decides to start importing Bulgarian energy cigarettes in a last ditch attempt at success ... his best friend soon advises that suicide might be his best option.
A streetsweeper finds a unconscious woman while cleaning the streets and decides to help her out by bringing her to his home, but little does he know that the woman is lives a life of crime.
Joe, fed up with his in-laws, runs away from home. Enjoying his newly gained freedom and his father-in-laws credit card, he seduces a number of girls, buys them expensive presents and wines and dines them. His joyride soon ends when he finds out that his wife - and several other girls - are pregnant.
During the invasion of Gaza in 2008-2009 by the Israeli army, 1400 people were killed - there of 400 children. By the time the last cries of protest died down those names were already forgotten.
