Baltasar Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur

Nacimiento : 1966-02-27, Reykjavik, Iceland

Historia

Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavík, Hafið, A Little Trip to Heaven (starring Julia Stiles and Forest Whitaker), and a film based on the book Mýrin (Jar City) by Arnaldur Indriðason. His father is the Spanish painter Baltasar Samper.

Perfil

Baltasar Kormákur
Baltasar Kormákur

Películas

La bestia
Director
El Doctor Nate Samuels, que se ha quedado viudo recientemente, regresa a Sudáfrica, lugar en el que conoció a su mujer, para visitar una reserva de animales con sus hijas. Pero lo que empieza siendo un viaje curativo se convierte en una lucha por la supervivencia cuando un león que ha escapado de unos cazadores furtivos empieza a seguirles.
Perdidos en el Ártico
Producer
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).
A la deriva
Producer
Basada en una historia real, narra cómo la pareja formada por los jóvenes Tami Oldham y su novio Richard se hace a la mar en su velero, pero en medio del océano se ven sorprendidos por una de las mayores tormentas jamás registradas. Tras el paso del huracán, Richard sale herido, y Tami tendrá que ponerse al mando para intentar sobrevivir a la deriva con el velero roto, sin comida y sin agua.
A la deriva
Director
Basada en una historia real, narra cómo la pareja formada por los jóvenes Tami Oldham y su novio Richard se hace a la mar en su velero, pero en medio del océano se ven sorprendidos por una de las mayores tormentas jamás registradas. Tras el paso del huracán, Richard sale herido, y Tami tendrá que ponerse al mando para intentar sobrevivir a la deriva con el velero roto, sin comida y sin agua.
Vultures
Producer
Para resolver deudas significativas, un hombre de negocios usa a su hermano para recuperar una entrega de cocaína. Utilizan a una mujer joven polaca como su mula para devolver la droga a Islandia, pero sus planes se equivocarán, el metabolismo de la pastelería que apoya esta prueba.
Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
Medidas extremas
Producer
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.
Medidas extremas
Finnur
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.
Medidas extremas
Writer
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.
Medidas extremas
Director
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.
Everest
Producer
Inspirada en los hechos que tuvieron lugar durante un intento por alcanzar el pico más alto del mundo, narra las peripecias de dos expediciones que se enfrentan a la peor tormenta de nieve conocida. En un desesperado esfuerzo por sobrevivir, el temple de los alpinistas se ve puesto a prueba al tener que enfrentarse a la furia desatada de los elementos y a obstáculos casi insuperables.
Everest
Director
Inspirada en los hechos que tuvieron lugar durante un intento por alcanzar el pico más alto del mundo, narra las peripecias de dos expediciones que se enfrentan a la peor tormenta de nieve conocida. En un desesperado esfuerzo por sobrevivir, el temple de los alpinistas se ve puesto a prueba al tener que enfrentarse a la furia desatada de los elementos y a obstáculos casi insuperables.
Corazón gigante
Producer
A sus 43 años, Fúsi es un inadaptado, con sobrepeso, que nunca tuvo novia y cuyo único interés son las batallas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que reproduce en miniatura en el apartamento en el que vive con su madre. Un día recibe un cupón para acudir una escuela de baile, donde conoce a Sjöfn, una mujer solitaria, como él, y con profundas heridas psicológicas.
2 Guns
Director
Un agente de la DEA, Bobby Trench, y un oficial de la Inteligencia Naval, Michael Stigman, consiguen robarle 43 millones de dólares a la mafia. El problema consiste en que en realidad ese dinero no era de la organización criminal, sino de la CIA. Adaptación al cine de una novela gráfica de Steven Grant.
The Deep
Producer
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
The Deep
Screenplay
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
The Deep
Director
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
Contraband
Producer
Hace tiempo que Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) dejó el mundo de la delincuencia, pero cuando su cuñado Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) mete la pata en un asunto de drogas encargado por su implacable jefe Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris se ve obligado a volver a hacer lo que mejor se le da, pasar contrabando, para pagar la deuda de Andy. Chris es un legendario contrabandista y no tarda en reunir a un equipo de primera con la ayuda de su mejor amigo, Sebastian (Ben Foster), y realizar un último viaje a Panamá para traer millones de dólares en billetes falsos. Pero las cosas no salen como estaba previsto y con solo unas horas para hacerse con el dinero, Chris deberá hacer uso de sus oxidadas habilidades y superar una traicionera red criminal con brutales narcos, polis y sicarios, antes de que su esposa Kate (Kate Beckinsale) y sus hijos se conviertan en objetivos.
Contraband
Director
Hace tiempo que Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) dejó el mundo de la delincuencia, pero cuando su cuñado Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) mete la pata en un asunto de drogas encargado por su implacable jefe Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris se ve obligado a volver a hacer lo que mejor se le da, pasar contrabando, para pagar la deuda de Andy. Chris es un legendario contrabandista y no tarda en reunir a un equipo de primera con la ayuda de su mejor amigo, Sebastian (Ben Foster), y realizar un último viaje a Panamá para traer millones de dólares en billetes falsos. Pero las cosas no salen como estaba previsto y con solo unas horas para hacerse con el dinero, Chris deberá hacer uso de sus oxidadas habilidades y superar una traicionera red criminal con brutales narcos, polis y sicarios, antes de que su esposa Kate (Kate Beckinsale) y sus hijos se conviertan en objetivos.
Summerland
Producer
An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions. Their house is built around an elf stone, which is sacred to the wife Lara, who is blessed with a sixth sense. When they get an offer to sell the stone at a high price, her husband Óskar is really tempted.
Inhale
Director
Un fiscal está dispuesto a arriesgar su carrera, su familia e incluso su vida cuando no ve otra salida para salvar la vida de su hija, afectada de una rara enfermedad, que realizar un trasplante de pulmón ilegal.
Reykjavik-Rotterdam
Kristófer
La trama del film se centra en un guardia de seguridad y ex-contrabandista de alcohol en la ruta de Islandia-Países Bajos que, tras atravesar difíciles problemas financieros, se siente tentado de volver a sus negocios ilegales al reencontrarse con un viejo amigo. Seleccionada por Islandia como candidada al Oscar 2010 en la categoría de película de habla no inglesa.
White Night Wedding
Producer
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
White Night Wedding
Screenplay
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
White Night Wedding
Director
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?
Las marismas
Producer
Película compuesta de dos historias basadas en la novela criminal de Arnaldur Indriðason: la primera, sobre un hombre que irrumpe en una base de datos genética de una información médica sobre gente islandesa. Tras haber perdido a su hija por una enfermedad hereditaria, intenta trazar sus propias raíces. La segunda historia trata sobre la investigación del asesinato de un anciano que conduce a una prueba forense poco común, desvelando secretos guardados en la genética de toda la nación.
Las marismas
Screenplay
Película compuesta de dos historias basadas en la novela criminal de Arnaldur Indriðason: la primera, sobre un hombre que irrumpe en una base de datos genética de una información médica sobre gente islandesa. Tras haber perdido a su hija por una enfermedad hereditaria, intenta trazar sus propias raíces. La segunda historia trata sobre la investigación del asesinato de un anciano que conduce a una prueba forense poco común, desvelando secretos guardados en la genética de toda la nación.
Las marismas
Director
Película compuesta de dos historias basadas en la novela criminal de Arnaldur Indriðason: la primera, sobre un hombre que irrumpe en una base de datos genética de una información médica sobre gente islandesa. Tras haber perdido a su hija por una enfermedad hereditaria, intenta trazar sus propias raíces. La segunda historia trata sobre la investigación del asesinato de un anciano que conduce a una prueba forense poco común, desvelando secretos guardados en la genética de toda la nación.
Simply - A True Story
Director
No plot found
Verdades ocultas
Original Story
Ambientada a comienzos de los años ochenta, narra la historia de Holt (Whitaker), un investigador de una agencia de seguros que viaja a un perdido pueblo de Minnesota para investigar la muerte de Kelvin, un consumador estafador, aparentemente fallecido en un accidente de coche cuando iba a visitar a su hermana (Stiles). La policía cree seguro que el cadáver es el de Kelvin, pero Holt parece no estar seguro...
Verdades ocultas
Producer
Ambientada a comienzos de los años ochenta, narra la historia de Holt (Whitaker), un investigador de una agencia de seguros que viaja a un perdido pueblo de Minnesota para investigar la muerte de Kelvin, un consumador estafador, aparentemente fallecido en un accidente de coche cuando iba a visitar a su hermana (Stiles). La policía cree seguro que el cadáver es el de Kelvin, pero Holt parece no estar seguro...
Verdades ocultas
Screenplay
Ambientada a comienzos de los años ochenta, narra la historia de Holt (Whitaker), un investigador de una agencia de seguros que viaja a un perdido pueblo de Minnesota para investigar la muerte de Kelvin, un consumador estafador, aparentemente fallecido en un accidente de coche cuando iba a visitar a su hermana (Stiles). La policía cree seguro que el cadáver es el de Kelvin, pero Holt parece no estar seguro...
Verdades ocultas
Director
Ambientada a comienzos de los años ochenta, narra la historia de Holt (Whitaker), un investigador de una agencia de seguros que viaja a un perdido pueblo de Minnesota para investigar la muerte de Kelvin, un consumador estafador, aparentemente fallecido en un accidente de coche cuando iba a visitar a su hermana (Stiles). La policía cree seguro que el cadáver es el de Kelvin, pero Holt parece no estar seguro...
Stormy Weather
Producer
The psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Cora becomes fond of her patient and establishes a relationship which goes beyond the usual course of treatment. She feels a kind of "call" from this woman as a strange and strong tie grows between them. One day, Cora learns that the identity of her patient has been discovered. Her name is Loa, she is a stranger, she has been sent back home…to Iceland. Cora, who had no idea of this woman's life outside their relationship, is deeply moved : she decides to meet up with her in order to finish the treatment.
Stormy Weather
Einar
The psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Cora becomes fond of her patient and establishes a relationship which goes beyond the usual course of treatment. She feels a kind of "call" from this woman as a strange and strong tie grows between them. One day, Cora learns that the identity of her patient has been discovered. Her name is Loa, she is a stranger, she has been sent back home…to Iceland. Cora, who had no idea of this woman's life outside their relationship, is deeply moved : she decides to meet up with her in order to finish the treatment.
Investigation Into the Invisible World
A feature length documentary shot in Iceland on mediums and the relationship between humans and invisible beings such as elves ghosts, angels, water monsters and extra-terrestrials. The film is a journey to the frontiers of life questioning the scope of our existence. Are we alone in the universe? If life exists in other dimensions, it's worth knowing more.
El mar
Producer
El rico y anciano patriarca Thordur reúne a sus dispersos herederos en su remoto pueblo pesquero islandés para hablar sobre el futuro de la pesca familiar. Pero unir a todos desencadena una tormenta de oscuros secretos familiares reprimidos durante mucho tiempo.
El mar
Writer
El rico y anciano patriarca Thordur reúne a sus dispersos herederos en su remoto pueblo pesquero islandés para hablar sobre el futuro de la pesca familiar. Pero unir a todos desencadena una tormenta de oscuros secretos familiares reprimidos durante mucho tiempo.
El mar
Director
El rico y anciano patriarca Thordur reúne a sus dispersos herederos en su remoto pueblo pesquero islandés para hablar sobre el futuro de la pesca familiar. Pero unir a todos desencadena una tormenta de oscuros secretos familiares reprimidos durante mucho tiempo.
Morrison y yo
Askildsen
A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki. They fall in love - but happiness in a relationship shadowed by crime and drugs is not necessarily a given. The movie is based on the novel Minä ja Morrison by first-time author Kata Kärkkäinen
Regína
Ívar
Regína is 10 years old. Her mother, Margrét, works at a home for the elderly and her father is dead. The story begins one sunny summer morning when kids are leaving for the summer camp and Regína has been told she cannot go. While alone at home killing time she discovers her gift, which is hypnotizing singing. Her friend Pétur shows his talent for finding words that rhyme and together they increase the power of singing.
No Such Thing
Dr. Artaud
Una periodista (Sarah Polley) es enviada a Islandia para investigar la desaparición de un cámara de su empresa, pero cuando llega lo que encuentra es un monstruo depresivo y alcohólico que no desea más que morir.
101 Reykjavik
Þröstur
Hlynur tiene 28 años y vive con su madre. Cuando ésta se enamora de una profesora de flamenco lesbiana, su vida cambiará.
101 Reykjavik
Screenplay
Hlynur tiene 28 años y vive con su madre. Cuando ésta se enamora de una profesora de flamenco lesbiana, su vida cambiará.
101 Reykjavik
Director
Hlynur tiene 28 años y vive con su madre. Cuando ésta se enamora de una profesora de flamenco lesbiana, su vida cambiará.
Angels of the Universe
Óli
The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.
The Split
Friðrik
Sol Jensen, a young Icelandic woman, and Halil Atesh, originally from the countryside in Turkey, meet in Reykjavik and fall passionately in love. Ten years later, Halil becomes an established businessman, while Sol runs a beauty parlor. Their two daughters, Leila and Aysiia, attend a Catholic school despite Halil's Muslim background and much to his grief. The split between him and Sol increases with the growing up of their daughters in a culture that is not his.
Pop in Reykjavik
Producer
Popp í Reykjavík (Pop in Reykjavik) is a film about the vibrant Icelandic music culture of the late '90s. It was released in 1998 and features interviews and concert footage of promising Icelandic bands like Gusgus, Bellatrix, Maus, Ensími, Quarashi, Botnleðja and Sigur Rós.
Áfram Latibær
Writers' Assistant
Latibær is full of colourful characters who have a very negative attitude towards physical activity, healthy food and so on. They prefer to stuff themselves with sweets and watch television all day. As a result they are all weak and flabby. To change this, the Sports-Elf arrives, and through his positive attitude, driving magnetism and by not taking no for an answer, he persuades the inhabitants to change their destructive lifestyle.
Áfram Latibær
Director
Latibær is full of colourful characters who have a very negative attitude towards physical activity, healthy food and so on. They prefer to stuff themselves with sweets and watch television all day. As a result they are all weak and flabby. To change this, the Sports-Elf arrives, and through his positive attitude, driving magnetism and by not taking no for an answer, he persuades the inhabitants to change their destructive lifestyle.
Devil's Island
Baddi
Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generation dreams of dollars, Rock'n'Roll and the American way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery - they're never short of a good reason to booze. Devil's Island vividly depicts the everyday life of a wacky family, their neighbours and friends and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't.
Dream Hunters
Gunnar
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.
Draumur um draum
Agnes
Natan
In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds. Agnes is a servant in the house of the county sheriff. There she is constantly sexually harassed by him and treated with contempt by his wife. Agnes falls in love with Natan, a self taught homoeopathic doctor. The sheriff takes revenge on Natan by making it illegal for him to practice his profession. The dramatic relationship between the three main characters ultimately leads to a fatal web of events where a love affair turns into a nightmare of brutality and destruction.
A Fairy Tale of Our Time
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.
Wallpaper: An Erotic Love Story
Two young friends, Lass and Sveppi, run a nightclub in downtown Reykjavik. They hire a beautiful young singer, Sól, who has just moved from the countryside to the city in order to take singing lessons. The boys make a bet which one will get the girl into bed first. As times goes on, Lass realises that he is in love with Sól and wants to give up the bet. Sveppi, on the other hand, has no interest in giving up the bet. Dos jóvenes amigos, Lass y Sveppi, van a un club nocturno en los suburbios de Reykjavik. Contratan a una cantante joven y hermosa, Sol, que acaba de mudarse del campo a la ciudad a fin de tomar clases de canto. Los chicos hacen una apuesta de cual de los dos se llevará a la chica a la cama primero. Luego, Lass se da cuenta de que está enamorado de Sol y quiere renunciar a la apuesta. Sveppi, en cambio, no tiene ningún interés en renunciar a ello. (FILMAFFINITY)
Broken Glass
Maria is somewhat of a rebel and problem child. Her mother died and her father remarried some awful lady, and Maria isn't happy at all. She takes a drug overdose and winds up in a home for other girls with problems, but the two women who run the place turn out to be not quite the ladies they seemed. Maria knows she can't stay there very long, and starts planning her escape.
Touch
Screenplay
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
Touch
Director
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
The Good Spy
Director
American CIA operative Robert Ames attempts to forge a healthy relationship between the U.S. and nations in the Middle East, but tragedy strikes in 1983 when a bomb detonates outside the American Embassy in Beruit.
Reykjavik
Director
A dramatization of the 1986 Reykjavik summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Cascade
Director
Based on the 2003 Documentary, "The Day Britain Stopped" about a massive traffic standstill that stranded hundreds of thousands of motorists in England.
On the Job
Writer
Politicians and high-ranking military officials hire prison inmates as hitmen and offer them temporary releases in order to do the job.
On the Job
Director
Politicians and high-ranking military officials hire prison inmates as hitmen and offer them temporary releases in order to do the job.
Jar City
Producer
A mystery set in a small Louisiana town, where a police detective investigating a murder uncovers a trail of secrets and corruption.