Þorsteinn Bachmann
출생 : 1965-10-25, Iceland
약력
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
잃어버린 지도를 찾기 위해 탐험을 떠난 이들. 두 남자가 광활한 그린란드에서 생존을 위한 싸움을 시작한다. 1909년 극 지방으로 떠난 덴마크 원정대의 실화에 기반한 이야기.
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
10대 소녀 아그네스의 어머니는 남편과 사는 게 지겹다. 그들의 옆집으로 새로운 이웃이 이사오면서 문제가 발생한다. 어머니와 딸이 새 이웃에게 이성적 관심을 갖게 된 것이다.
A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.
Þekktur maður
An elderly woman feels that she's leading a too lonely a life so she decides to turn things around.
Hannes
평범한 가정에서 자란 15살 소녀 매그니아, 자유분방한 스텔라를 만나면서 그녀의 삶은 180도 바뀌기 시작한다. 어린 시절부터 시작되는 그들의 파란만장하면서도 처절한 삶이 과거와 현재를 오가면서 펼쳐진다. 실화를 바탕으로 한 작품.
Hörður
At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
Konrad
아그네스는 남편 아틀리가 외도 했다며 집에서 쫓아내고, 딸 아사를 못 보게 한다. 할 수 없이 부모님 집으로 돌아온 아틀리는 부모의 집 뒤뜰에 있는 커다란 나무가 이웃집에 그림자를 드리운다는 이유로 말 다툼을 벌인다. 이후 두 집안의 물건이 훼손되고 자동차 바퀴가 펑크 나는가 하면 고양이가 사라지는 등 분쟁은 점점 악화된다. 결국 CCTV까지 설치되고 옆집 부부가 전기 톱을 갖고 있다는 소문까지 도는데……
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
저명한 외과 의사 ‘피누르’.
부족한 것 없이 평온했던 ‘피누르’의 일상이, 딸 ‘안나’의 연인 ‘오타르’로 인해 무너지게 된다. 마약 중독으로 인해 점점 망가져가고 범죄의 위협 속에 놓여 있는 ‘안나’를 지키기 위해 경찰의 도움도 받으려 했지만 소용이 없다는 것을 알게 되자 직접 ‘오타르’를 처단할 계획을 세우기 시작한다. ‘안나’의 ‘오타르’를 향한 맹목적인 사랑을 멈추기 위해, 그리고 가족을 위협하고 이용하려 하는 ‘오타르’의 협박과 폭력에서 벗어나기 위해 ‘피누르’는 의사로서 할 수 있는 가장 잔혹한 방법으로 죽음 없는 살인 계획을 시작한다.
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
Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and drinks himself to death over a twenty-year period.
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
37년 전 화산폭발로 천직을 잃고 고향을 떠난 하네스. 은퇴식까지 마친 그의 가슴에는 지나온 세월의 무상함과 남은 삶에 대한 공허함이 물밀듯이 몰려온다. 삶의 의욕을 잃어버린 그는 가족들 앞에서도 늘 화난 표정으로 사사건건 성질만 낸다. 그러던 어느 날, 우연히 듣게 된 자식들의 대화에 큰 충격을 받은 그는 이를 계기로 삶에 변화를 주기로 결심한다. 하지만 모처럼 아내가 좋아하는 넙치 수프를 준비해 함께 저녁식사를 하던 중, 그의 인생을 송두리째 뒤흔들 또 한번의 화산폭발이 있어난다. 과연 그는 잃어버린 삶의 가치와 소중한 사랑 모두를 지킬 수 있을까?
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
An unexpected first kiss causes Gabriel to feel the electrifying "jitters" of love and lust with the free-spirited Marcus; a perfect way to end a Summer studying abroad. Realizing he is gay, Gabriel returns home and is immediately scrutinized by his family and friends who notice he’s different. But as the school year launches with Gabriel distracted with parties and his friends’ own dramas, Marcus returns, reigniting the hot, thrilling emotions of one’s first crush. Jitters fires head-first into the topsy-turvy world of first love with an attractive cast and pulsating soundtrack, making it a smartly refreshing journey into the queer, teen experience.
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
The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism
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.
