Complete Press-Kit Text

 

 

ICELANDIC FILM CORPORATION

Presents

Cold Light

A Warm Story Painted by Chilling Clairvoyance

 

A Hilmar Oddsson Film
Produced by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and Anna María Karlsdóttir

 

Main cast:
Ingvar E. Sigurdsson
Áslákur Ingvarsson

 

What could be better than knowing your future?  And what could be worse?

A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends.  One that the child had foreseen, yet failed to act upon.

A 40-year-old is hiding in a  self-made prison of mundane life.  The film opens as he finally becomes resolved to dare gaze at and come to terms with someone's totally different life.  His unthinkable past.

He turbulently sheds the cobwebs to find that light and happiness have been awaiting him.  And this potentially cold cinematic knock on life's door becomes a defiantly uplifting work of art.

 

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In association with
Film & Music Entertainment Ltd.
Filmhuset AS
and Lichtblick Filmproduktion GmbH

Official website: www.icecorp.is/web/NewReleases/ColdLight

Supported by:
Eurimages, Icelandic Film Fund and Nordic Film & TV Fund

World Sales:
Media Luna Entertainment GmbH & Co. KG
Hochstadenstrasse 1-3
50674 Cologne
Germany
Tel: +49 221 139 22 22
Fax: +49 221 139 22 24
info@medialuna-entertainment.de
www.medialuna-entertainment.de

Festival Contact
Icelandic Film Centre
Tungata 14
101 Reykjavik
Tel: +354-562 35 80
Fax +354-562 71 71
E-mail: gudrun@icelandicfilmcentre.is
www.icelandicfilmcentre.is

Production Comany:
Icelandic Film Corpororation
Hverfisgata 46
101 Reykjavík
Tel +354- 551 22 60
Fax: +354-552 51 54
E-mail: vala@icecorp.is,
www.icecorp.is

Director:
Hilmar Oddsson

Producers:
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Anna María Karlsdóttir

Co - producers
Mike Downey
Sam Taylor
Egil Ødegård
Helga Bähr

Script:
Hilmar Oddsson
Freyr Thormodsson
Based on a novel by Vigdís Grímsdóttir

Main cast:
Ingvar E. Sigurdsson
Áslákur Ingvarsson

Cast:
Kristbjörg Kjeld
Ruth Ólafsdóttir
Snaefrídur Ingvarsdóttir
Thórey Sigthórsdóttir
Helga Braga Jónsdóttir
Edda Heidrún Backman
Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Valdimar Örn Flygenring
Hilmar Jónsson
Elís Philip William Scobie
Steinunn Hardardóttir
Katla M. Thorgeirsdóttir
Christine Carr
Jóhann Sigurdarson
Vilborg Halldórsdóttir
Hilmar Oddsson
Marta Nordal
Borghildur Thors
Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir

Production Designer:
Sigurjón Jóhannsson

Costume Designer:
Helga I. Stefánsdóttir

Editor:
Sigvaldi J. Kárason

Sound Designers:
Paul Wrightson
Kjartan Kjartansson

Original Score:
Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson

Director of Photography:
Sigurdur Sverrir Pálsson

Original title: Kaldaljós
Running time: 92 min.
Film gauge: Super 35
Screen ratio: Cinemascope
Sound: Dolby Digital
Language: Icelandic
Subtitles: English
No. of reels: 6

Shot on location in Reykjavik and Seydisfjordur in 2002-3

Year: 2004
Theatrical Release in Iceland: January 1st 2004

International Premier: Gothenburg Film Festival 2004

Official Selection of the 54th Berlin  International Film Festival, Panorama

Director's Biography

Hilmar Oddsson was born in Reykjavík in 1957. In 1980 he began studying film direction at the feature-film department of the München Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film where he graduated in 1985.

His most interesting short film from Munich was IN THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS -- on the mysteries of Snæfellsjökull glacier where Jules Verne had set his classic Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

After he returned from Munich, Hilmar Oddsson's first full-length film, THE BEAST (Eins og skepnan deyr, 1986), was released. This psychological thriller dealing with the fate of two young people in a remote and bleak landscape was well received by the public and critics. Hilmar Oddsson directed, wrote the screenplay and composed some of the musical score as well.

Tears of Stone (Tár úr steini, 1995)features the story of Jon Leifs, an Icelandic composer in Nazi Germany of the 1930´s, who falls in love and marries a Jewish girl, forcing him to turn his quest for success into a quest for survival.

During the last few years interest in Jon Leifs´ music has been growing, both in Iceland and abroad.  It is more Icelandic then anything Icelandic, gorwing out of nature both terrifying and magnificent, glaciers, volcanos, wasteland ? with roots in traditional Icelandic folk music.

Between major projects, Hilmar Oddsson has worked as a freelance producer for both Icelandic TV channels, and as a newspaper critic.

 

Director´s Filmography:
Features:

The Beast 97 min.  (1986)
Tears of Stone 114 min. (1995)
No Trace 91 min (1998)
Cold Light 92 min (2003)

Main TV Dramas:

Cinderella and the Man who had no Trousers 43 min. (1987)
The Sailor, The Fortune Teller, The Florist, The Shoemaker,
The Painter and Sveinn 79 min. (1991)
Yesterday 3x25 min (1998)
God exists, and so does love 73 min (1999)
It will be found out 36 min (2001)

Short Films:

Scartaris (1983)
Playing with fire (1990)

 

The Icelandic Film Corporation
Company Profile

Founded in 1987 by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, The Icelandic Film Corporation is Iceland's leading film production company, producing or co-producing the majority of all feature films made in Iceland. IFC is currently developing or producing 80 per cent of all projects from directors and writers in Iceland and has for the past ten years been the main employer and trainer of film professionals, both artistic and technical.

IFC has built up studio facilities and production and post-production equipment and facilities (camera, lighting, grip, editing computers etc). CINEMA SOUND is a sound post-post production company owned by The Icelandic Film Corporation. Cinema Sound facilities include a Dolby digital sound-mixing studio.

The Icelandic Film Corporation has a back catalogue of more than 50 feature titles and several shorts and documentaries. The company handles the distribution of its own titles in Iceland as well as the acquisition and distribution of quality foreign films in Iceland.

 

Icelandic Film Corporation
Filmography

Cold Light (feature, 2004) Director Hilmar Oddsson, Co-production: Lichtblik Filmproduktion GmbH (Germany), Film & Music Entertainment Limited (UK) and Filmhuset AS (Norway)

Falcons (feature, 91 min.2002) Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Co-production: Peter Rommel Filmproductions, Germany and Birdie Films, UK.

Regina (feature, 92 min, January 2002) Director: María Sigurdardóttir
Co-production: Filmhuset, Norway, Tradewind Pictures, Germany and Productions La Feté, Canada.

Angels of the Universe (feature, 97 min, 2000) Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Co-production: Zentropa Entertainments, Denmark, Peter Rommel Filmproductions, Germany and Filmhuset, Norway.

Fiasco (feature, 2000) Director: Ragnar Bragason Co production: ZikZak Filmworks, Tradewind Pictures and Zentropa Entertainments.

Plan B-report (feature, 90 min, 2000) Director: Jóhann Sigmarsson
Co-production: Jóhann Sigmarsson, Iceland.

Witchcraft (feature, 112 min, 1999) Director: Hrafn Gunnlaugson
Co-production: Icelandic Film Corporation, Viking Film Sweden, Filmhuset, Oslo and Peter Rommel Filmproduction, Berlin.

Pearls and Swine (feature 90 min, 1997) Director: Óskar Jónasson
Co-production: Óskar Jónasson, Iceland

Count me Out (feature, 85 min 1997) Director  Ari Kristinsson
Co-production: Peter Romml Filmproduction, Germany, Filmhuset, Norway, Zentropa Entertainments, Denmark.

Devil's Island (feature, 104 min 1996) Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Co-production: Peter Rommel Filmproduction, Germany, Filmhuset, Norway

Cold Fever(feature, 87 min  1995) Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Co-production: Iciclefilm, US, Pandora Film, Germany, Sunrise Inc, Switzerland, Zentropa Entertainments, Denmark

Movie Days (feature, 90 min  1994) Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Co-production: Reter Rommel Filmproduction, Zentropa Entertainments, Denmark

Children of Nature (feature, 85 min  1991) Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Co-production: Max Film, Germany, Metro Film, Oslo

White Whales (feature, 80 min 1987) Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Co-Productions

House of Hearts (feature, in post-production) DirectorElisabeth Rygaard
Delegate Producer: Zentropa Entertainments 3 Aps.

Monster (feature, in post-production) Director: Hal Hartley
Delegate Producer: American Zoetrope, USA.

Dancer in the Dark (feature, 2000) Director: Lars von Trier
Delegate Producer: Zentropa Productions, Denmark.

The Split (feature, 1998) Director: Canan Gerede
  Delegate Producer:  Alfa Film Turkey.

Sweety Barret (feature, 1998) Director: Stephen Bradley
  Delegate Producer: Temple Films, Ireland

Vildspor (feature,1998))Director:  Simon Staho
  Delegate Producer: Balboa, Denmark

María (feature, 85 min, 1997) Director: Einar Heimsson
  Delegate Producer: Bluescreen, Germany

Blossi/810551 (feature, 90 min, 1997) Director: Júlíus Kemp
  Delegate Producer: Icelandic Film Company, Iceland

Dream Hunters (feature, 90 min, 1996) Director: Ásdís Thoroddsen
  Delegate Producer: Gjóla hf., Iceland

Benjamin Dove (feature, 91 min, 1995) Director: Gísli Snær Erlingsson
  Delegate Producer: Baldurfilm, Iceland

Tears of Stone (feature, 114 min, 1995) Director: Hilmar Oddsson
  Delegate Producer: Tónabíó, Iceland.

Private Lives (feature, 94 min, 1995) Director: Thráinn  Bertelsson
  Delegate Producer: New Life Productions, Iceland

Wallpaper (feature, 90 min, 1992) Director: Júlíus Kemp
  Delegate Producer: Icelandic Film Company, Iceland

Cast

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
Actor

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson graduated from the Drama Academy of Iceland in 1990. Since then he has played leading roles, both dramatic and comic, in many of Iceland's theatres and participated in both independent productions and others with the National Theatre of Iceland. Besides Ingvar has played many film and television roles and worked in commercials. Last year he appeared in the Hollywood production K-19: The Widow maker. He has received a number of prizes and nominations for his work, twice he has received the Icelandic Film Prize - Edda as Iceland's Best Actor; in 1994 he was awarded The European Film Award for  Best European Actor - People's Choice and represented Iceland at European Shooting Star event at the 1999 Berlin Festival. 

Áslákur Ingvarsson
Actor
&
Snaefridur Ingvarsdottir
Actress

Áslákur Ingvarsson, b. 1990 and Snaefridur Ingvarsdóttir, b. 1992, children of Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, appear here in their first filmroles. 
In spite of the young age the  have both worked on the stage, most recently at the Icelandic  National Theater

Kristbjörg Kjeld
Actress

KRISTBJÖRG KJELD - graduated from the Icelandic National Theatre Drama School in 1958 and has been one of Iceland?s foremost actresses in a grand career ever since. She's been a member of the National Theatre company since graduation and among her more memorable roles are Alison in Look Back in Anger, Ingunn in Peer Gynt, Barblin in Andorra, Goneril in King Lear, Bernarda in The House of Bernarda Alba and Kate Keller in All My Sons. She has been very active on the silver screen and has played major roles in a dozen Icelandic movies since 1962, including
Dot,Dot, comma,dash,1981, In the Shadow of the Raven,1988 Under the Glaciar,1989 Fiasko,1999 Segull´s laughter,2001 and  The Sea, 2002.

Ruth Ólafsdóttir
Actress

Ruth Olafsdottir, born in Iceland, studied in Vienna, Austria, at the Max Reinhart Seminar, began her acting career in Austria doing theatre and Television. Then she moved to Germany where she played in Munich at the Residenz Theatre, in Berlin at the Freie Volksbuehne and in Hamburg at the Schauspielhaus, all the while working on TV films as well. In Munich she had the good fortune to get her first film role under the direction of INGMAR BERGMAN, in "From The Life Of Marionettes". In Berlin she worked with PETER ZADEK, on of Europe's most famous theatre directors. She starred in the award-winning feature "Farewell To False Paradise" directed by TEVFIK BASER. Ruth then decided to move to Los Angeles, where she began with work in plays, and roles in TV (Usa High, Unsolved Mysteries) and some independent films, The Greenhouse Effect, My Father's House. In 1999 she directed the play "The Colorado Catechism" and was nominated for best director in the Valley Theatre league's ADA AWARDS. Frequently Ruth travels back to Europe to work in German, Austrian and Icelandic TV and films, such as "Tears Of Stone" which won many European awards and had been at many festivals worldwide, and most Jewish film-festivals in the US.

 

 

Crew Biographies

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Producer

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson started his film making carrier with a series of experimental films and documentaries in the early 1980's.

Fridriksson founded his production company THE ICELANDIC FILM CORPORATION in 1987 which has grown to become Iceland?s most important production company, producing Fridriksson?s films as well as working with other Icelandic directors. Through Fridriksson?s international reputation the company has built a network of co-production partners, working with many internationally established production companies, including Lars von Trier?s  Zentropa and Francis Ford Coppola?s American Zoetrope.

As a director Fridriksson gained international recognition and critical acclaim with his second feature CHILDREN OF NATURE (1991) which was nominated for the Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film.

His company, The Icelandic Film Corporation is currently working with many of Iceland?s most talented directors and writers as well as internationally established talents.

Anna María Karlsdóttir
Producer

Anna María Karlsdottir started her carrier in the film business as Head of International Relations at The Icelandic Film Fund in 1991.  Joined the The Icelandic Film Corporation Karlsdottir as General Manager in 1997. She has been involved in the development, production and packaging of most of the company?s films produced in recent years. Anna Maria Karlsdottir served as the director of the Reykjavik Film Festival 1998-2001.

 

Mike Downey
Producer

Currently Film and Music Entertainment Ltd's Managing Director, Mike was the co-founder and publisher of international film trade Moving Pictures, MPTV and the European Film Review.  His feature production credits include Death Watch, Falcons, Charuga, Dubrovnik Twilight, Seven Days to Live and Josephine ans Cold Light.  His two volumes: "The Film Finance Handbook: A Practical Guide for European Film Producers" were published last year.

 

Sam Taylor
Producer

Sam began her career as head of international sales at Jeremy Thomas and Chris Blackwell's Oasis company.  Her first feature production was Milcho Manchevski's Oscar nominated Before the Rain which won the Golden Lion in Venice, then Benjamin Ross' feature debut The Young Poisoner's Handbook and Sweet Angel Mine, and then recently completed Under the Stars.  Her most recent credits include Death Watch and Falcons. She sits on the Film Policy Group at PACT (UK Producer's Alliance) and the training board for government organisation, Skillset.

 

Egil Ødegård
Producer

Egil Ödegaard is the CEO of the Norwegian film production company Filmhuset, established in 1993. He is also the company's main producer. During the last decade he has produced and co-produced ten feature films (including Fridriksson´s Devil?s Island, Angels of the Universe and Falcons) and approximately twenty-five other films, shorts and documentaries.

Helga Bähr
Producer

Helga Bähr founded the German production Company Lichtblik Filmproduktion Gmbh in 1987 together with four film directors. Before that she had worked as a journalist, festival director, director of the first regional German Film Fund and director of Hamburg Film House. Among films that she has produced and co-produced are Tevfik Baser´s Farewell Stranger, Someone Else's America by Goran Paskaljevic and Härtetest by Janek Rieke; nominated for German Film Prize in 1997. In 2000 she produced the German Box office success Now or Never by Lars Büchel and she just finished King of Thieves by Ivan Fila.

Vigdís Grímsdóttir
Writer

Vigdís Grímsdóttir was born in Reykjavík on August 15th 1953. She graduated from the Iceland University of Education with a Teaching Diploma in 1973, received a BA-degree in Icelandic Studies and Library and Information Science from the University of Iceland in 1978, and a degree in Education from the Iceland University of Education in 1982. She was a candidate of Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland 1984-85. Grímsdóttir worked as an elementary- and college teacher in Reykjavík and Hafnarfjörður until 1990 but has since then focused almost exclusively on writing.

Her first book, the short story collection Tíu myndir úr lífi þínu (Ten Pictures from Your Life), appeared in 1983 and since then she has published collections of poetry, another collection of short stories, and novels, including one children's book. Grímsdóttir has received various recognitions for her work and her books have been translated into other languages. Adaptations for theatre have been made of two of her novels and been performed both in Iceland and in Sweden.

 

Sigurður Sverrir Pálsson
Director of Photography

Sigrudur Sverrir Pálsson studied at the London School of Film Technique in 1967-68 with emphasis on cinematography. He started his carier in 1969 at the Iclendic State television where he started as an editor but soon he switch to being a Film Cameraman and producer. In 1977 he started his own production company with two of his collueges but from 1995 he has worked as a freelance Cinematographer. Sigurdur Sverrir has been a DOP on number of Icelandic features e.g. Land and sons, point, point, comma, dash, The Outlaw, Maria, Pearls and swine and with Hilmar Oddsson on Tears of Stone and No Trace. He has won prizes all around the world for his work, particulary Tears of Stone, Benjamin Dove and Land and Sons. 

 

Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson
Original Score

Hjalmar´s music is varied, ranging from simple songs to complicated orchestral scores. In his repertoire choral music is prominent as well as music for smaller groups and solo pieces. For the theatre he has composed music to many large-scale productions, as well as several independent music-dramatic works including opera, musicals and dance productions. In addition, he has composed music for the films as well as participating in scriptwriting.
 
Hjalmar was born in Isafjordur in the northwest of Iceland. He continued his music studies at Brandeis University in Boston and finished his master?s degree from Cornell University in 1980. His final thesis being based on his studies of the music of Jón Leifs. From 1988 to 1992 he was the chairman of the Society of Icelandic Composers and from 1991 to 1998 he served as the president of the politically influential Federation of Icelandic Artists. He is now rector of the recently established Iceland Academy of the Arts.

Hjalmar has previously worked with Hilmar Oddson director in Tears of Stone  as musical director (1995) and  in No Trace, original music score (1998).

 

Sigurjón Jóhannsson
Production Designer

Sigurjón lived in Copenhagen in 1968-1973 where he educated/experienced himself in theatre techniques and stage- and costume designing at Copenhagen?s theatres. Shortly after his return to Iceland he was hired at the National Theatre of Iceland  as stage designer and served there as chief designer 1976-1988. Saguaro was a member of the Theatre Board at the National theatre on behalf of Icelandic Actors Association in 1984-1988.
Beside his work for the National Theatre Sigurjón has handed his experts to the many theatres of Iceland as well as to the Icelandic Opera and  the Icelandic Dance Company. He has participated in over one hundred productions for theatres as well as many films: Rainbow?s End (1983), The Atomic Station (1984), Nonni and Manni (1988), and with Hilmar Oddsson on the films: Tears of Stone (1995) and No trace (1998).

 

Sigvaldi J. Kárason
Editor

Sigvaldi J. Karason studied film editing at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) 1998-2000. He has worked as editor since 1993 on a number of short films, television documentaries and feature films.  Along with Cold Light, he has worked on Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's Angels of the Universe and Falcons, Gisli Erlingsson's Ikingut, Robert Douglas's A Man Like Me, Baltasar Kormákur's 101 Reykjavik and many more.

 

Kjartan Kjartansson
Sound Designer

Kjartan Kjartansson graduated as a sound designer from the Danish Film School in 1991. He has worked with the Icelandic Film Corporation on most of the films produced by the company. He has previously worked with Hilmar Oddsson in Tears of Stone in 1995. Kjartan runs the Dolby digital sound-mixing studio Cinema Sound in Reykjavík, owned by him and the Icelandic Film Corporation.

 

Paul Wrightson
Sound Designer

As either Sound Designer, Dialogue, ADR or Foley Editor, Paul Wrightson worked on over 20 feature films and television programmes including titles such as "Topsy Turvy", "Buffalo Soldiers", "My Son the Fanatic" and many more. In addition to "Cold Light" his most recent credits include "Deathwatch" and "My Little Eye".

 

Jóna Finnsdóttir
Line Producer

Jóna Finnsdóttir lived in Los Angeles 1986-1991 where she studied MFA in producing at the American Film Institute and worked as assistant director for UCLA in 1988. Before she moved to LA she directed a multi-camera production for the Dramatic Institute in Stockholm, Sweden in 1985 and took courses at BBC Training Center in 1983. She has been managing director for the Icelandic Academy of Arts since 1999 and also managing director for Tonabio Film Company since 1993 as well as for Reykjavik City Theater 1998-1999. She worked as producer/director for the National TV in Iceland in 1976-1985 in drama, entertaining and children?s programs. Among her credits are Hilmar Oddsson´s feature films No Trace (1998) and Tears of Stone (1995). 

 

 

Complete Cast and Crew

Cast

Grímur      Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
Woman in Reception   Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir
Linda      Ruth Ólafsdóttir
Svava     Steinunn Harðardóttir
Woman in window   Borghildur Thors
Young Gímur                                 Áslákur Ingvarsson
Lára      Katla M. Þorgeirsdóttir
Guðbjörg     Helga Braga Jónsdóttir 
Gottína      Snæfríður Ingvarsdóttir 
Álfrún      Kristbjörg Kjeld
Grimur´s mother    Þórey Sigþórsdóttir
Anna      Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir
Woman at Exhibition   Marta Nordal
Young Tumi     Elís Philip William Scobie
Indriði     Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Grímur´s Father    Valdimar Örn Flygenring
Þorbjörg       Cristine Carr
Foreigner       Jóhann Sigurðarson 
Woman on Pier    Vilborg Halldórsdóttir 
Tumi       Hilmar Jónsson
Tumi´s mother     Edda Heiðrún Backman
Tumi´s father    Hilmar Oddsson

Art students

Bjargey Ólafsdóttir
Bjarni Massi
Björn Halldór Helgason
Elín Guðmundsdóttir
Guðmundur Thoroddsen
Gunnar Már Pétursson
Hörn Harðardóttir
Íris Eggertsdóttir
Jóhanna Helga Þorkelsdóttir
Ólafur Þór Jóhannesson
Rebekka Ragnarsdóttir

Members of Singapore Sling

Bjarni Friðrik Jóhannsson
Einar Þór Kristjánsson
Helgi Örn Pétursson
Henrik Baldvin Björnsson
Sigurður Magnús Finnsson
Þorgeir Guðmundsson

 

Script consultant
Páll Kristinn Pálsson

Production manager
Rannveig Jónsdóttir

1st AD
Fahad Falur Jabali

2nd AD
Harpa Elísa Þórsdóttir

Director´s Assistant
Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir

Hair & Make-up
Ásta Hafþórsdóttir

SFX
Eggert Ketilsson

1st AC
Goði Guðbjörnsson

2nd AC
Ómar Jabali

Gaffer
Örn Marinó Arnarson

Best boy
Ingvar Stefánsson

Grip
Jónas Gudmundsson

Grip Assistant
Arnar Einarsson

Light Assistants
Hinrik Jónsson
Valdimar Jóhannsson

Electricians
Sigurður Steinarsson

Sound Recordist
Steingrímur Eyfjörð Gudmundsson

Boom Operator
Árni Gústafsson

Continuty
Þóra Karítas Árnadóttir

Carpender
Jóhannes Karlsson

Property masters
Vilborg Halldórsdóttir
Magnús Reynir Jónsson

Advisor Production design
Pétur Kristjánsson

Assistant SFX
Haukur Karlsson

Assistant Costume designer
Elma Bjargey Guðmundsdóttir

Seamstress
Selma Gísladóttir

Assistant Carpenders
Jakob Fenger
Ólafur Mikaelsson
Dagur Bjarnason
Gísli Sigmundsson

Painter
Unnur Sveinsdóttir

Runners
Sófus Jóhannsson
Ágúst Örn Gústafsson
Hörður Tryggvason
Örvar Jóhannsson

Drivers
Sigurður Tómasson
Sigurður Gunnlaugsson

Catering
Garðar Rúnar Sigurgeirsson

Catering Assistant
Þórunn Eymundsdóttir

Childcare
Ingibjörg Arnljótsdóttir

Grimur´s Drawings
Sigurjón Jóhannsson

Paintings at Exhibition
Sigurjón Jóhannsson

Stunt Coordinator
Valdimar “Stunt” Jóhannsson

Photographer
Magnús Reynir Jónsson

Arial Photography
Þyrluþjónustan
Jón Kjartan Björnsson

Story Board
Sigurður Valur Sigurðsson

Sound Studio
Cinemasound Ltd, Iceland.

Sound Editing
Paul Wrightson
Kjartan Kjartansson
Björn Viktorsson
Ingvar Lundberg
Guðrún Ragna Sigurjónsdóttir
Steigrímur Eyfjörð Guðmundsson

Sound Mixing
Kjartan Kjartansson
Ingvar Lundberg

Synch of dailies
Björn Viktorsson

Foley Studio
Mind the sound/Zound

Foley recorded by
Srdjan Kurpjel
Samir Foco

Foley Artists
Peter Burgis
Dado Jehan

Foley Editing
Samir Foco
Ivana Jeftic
Ingvar Lundberg

Foley Mixing
Ingvar Lundberg

Arrangement original score
Arnar Bjarnason

Orchestra Conductor
Nick Ingman

Orchestra leader
Rolf Wilson

Piano
John Lenehan

Solo Violin
Rolf Wilson

Singer
Ísak Ríkharðsson

Orchestra Contractor
Isobel Griffiths

Sound Engineer
Steve Price

Tape operator
Mat Bartram

Music Editor
Ivana Jeftic

Music mixing
Sveinn Kjartansson

Music recorded at
Angel Recording Studios

Digital effects
Póstframleiðsla ehf.

Pétur Karlsson
Björn Ófeigsson
Sigurjón Friðrik Garðarsson
Sigvaldi J. Kárason

Producers assistant
Vala Hrönn Viggósdóttir

Legal Services
Tómas Þorvaldsson

Auditors Iceland
KPMG
Alexander G. Eðvaldsson

Accountant
Kristín Traustadóttir

Sales & Aquisition
Ísleifur B. Þórhallsson

EPK recording
Árni Sveinsson

Translations
Martin Regal

UK Production Office

Assosiate Producers
Kate Barry
Zorana Piggott

Producer´s assistant
Jessica Woods

Development Executive
Sam Lavender

Accountants
Malde & Co.
Sirish Malde
Ashit Malde

Legal Services
Lee and Thompson Solicitors

Incurance
Aon Ruben

Titles
Capital FX

Norway Production office

Productuion co-ordinator
Halvor Skree

Production consultant
Pauline Aasarød
 

Graphic Design & Titles
Jónsson & Le?macks

Laboratory
Atlantik Filmkopierwerk - Hamborg

Film Stock
Kodak

World Sales
Media Luna Entertainment GmbH

Special Thanks

Áhöfnin á Gullveri NS 12
Flytjandi
Karl K. Karlsson
Rarik á Austurlandi
Seyðisfjarðarbær
Skaftfell Menningarmiðstöð
SR-mjöl Gunnar og Snorri

 

Stick
Song & Lyrics: Henrik Baldvin Björnsson
Singapore Sling
©2003 Singapore Sling

Er þú birtist
Song & Lyrics: Hilmar Oddsson
KK
©2003 Hilmar Oddsson

Capriccio for string quartette
Song: Arnar Bjarnason
©2003 Arnar Bjarnason

Tímabundin tilviljun
Song: Sveinbjörn B. Thorarensen
Hermigervill
©2003 Sveinbjörn B. Thorarensen

 

Supported by:
Eurimages, Icelandic Film Fund and Nordic Film & TV Fund

 

No animals were harmed during the production of this film.

A Co-production between Icelandic Film Corporation, Lichtblick Filmproduktion GmbH, Film & Music Entertainment Limited and Filmhuset AS

A CO-PRODUCTION BETWEEN ICELAND-GERMANY-UK-NORWAY

© Íslenska kvikmyndasamsteypan ehf. , Lichtblick Filmproduktion GmbH, Birdpic Ltd., Filmhuset AS