Pétur Einarsson

Pétur Einarsson

Movies for Pétur Einarsson...

Metalhead
Title: Metalhead
Character: Traveler
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.
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Polite People
Title: Polite People
Character: Skjöldur
Released: March 31, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh
Title: Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh
Character: Dolli
Released: September 30, 2011
Type: Movie
After Lára, 13, loses both her father and brother in an accident, she discovers that her father used to be a member of a theatre group at a local theatre. In order to keep his memory alive, she joins the company. The company consists of eccentric and playful elders who introduce Lára to the magic of theatre and the importance of play. While Lára struggles to piece together the fractured life she now shares with her mother, she decides to help the company in their attempt to save the theatre with a big hit play. But evil and corrupt forces want it gone forever.
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The Messanger
Title: The Messanger
Character: Maður
Released: July 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Páll thinks he is just like everyone else, that is until he begins to have vivid visions about life after death. At first he has a open mind about them, but discovers through them an evil plot. The visions show him a spree of killing of important people within society. A panic ensues, and Páll gets tangled in a plot with powerful people and a cult that could destroy society.
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Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Title: Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
No description found
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The Nail
Title: The Nail
Released: September 29, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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The Box of Chocolates
Title: The Box of Chocolates
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Ragnar, straight out of hospital, orders a taxi-driver around Reykjavik in order to find a three layered chocolate box. He wants to repay a nurse for her good service at the hospital. After each unsuccessful stop at various grocery stores, his daughter, Hrönn, gets increasingly agitated in the back seat of the cab. Tension between father and daughter build to a peak, and it becomes crucial for Hrönn to confront her father for the first time in her life.
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Rattlesnakes
Title: Rattlesnakes
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Some people have to live their lives on a constant look out for snakes. Some even have to wear boots all the time. But people in Iceland have the privilege of just wearing whatever shoes they want – without any worries.
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Eleven Men Out
Title: Eleven Men Out
Character: Björgvin
Released: September 2, 2005
Type: Movie
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
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Wine of the House
Title: Wine of the House
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A short film about how everything that can go wrong goes so bad that going wrong takes on a new meaning.
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Noi the Albino
Title: Noi the Albino
Character: Priester
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: Movie
17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
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Njalssaga
Title: Njalssaga
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga
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Full House
Title: Full House
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
No plot found
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101 Reykjavik
Title: 101 Reykjavik
Character: Pabbi Magga
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
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Fiasco
Title: Fiasco
Character: Frosti
Released: March 10, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Out of the Ash and Into the Fire
Title: Out of the Ash and Into the Fire
Released: February 6, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Angels of the Universe
Title: Angels of the Universe
Character: Brynjólfur
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Ikingut
Title: Ikingut
Character: Magnús
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed
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The Beatle
Title: The Beatle
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Gunnar owns a car sale where he works everyday, and even lives there along with his two sons, and his ex-girlfriend.
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Leap Year
Title: Leap Year
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Pretty Angels
Title: Pretty Angels
Released: February 18, 1990
Type: Movie
No plot found
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SSL-25 (Special Squad Laugarnesvegur 25)
Title: SSL-25 (Special Squad Laugarnesvegur 25)
Released: December 30, 1989
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Nóttin, já nóttin
Title: Nóttin, já nóttin
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
12 hours in the life of a young man who has just received bad news which change everything.
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Broken Glass
Title: Broken Glass
Character: Jón
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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When the Raven Flies
Title: When the Raven Flies
Character: Slaver with heavy knife
Released: February 4, 1984
Type: Movie
Vikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Twenty years later the boy returns to Iceland take his revenge.
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The Fishing Trip
Title: The Fishing Trip
Released: March 8, 1980
Type: Movie
On a sunny summer day a Range Rover stumbles across the lava and moss down to lake Þingvallavatn. A husband and wife step out of the vehicle along with their children, fishing partner and his daughter. While the men fish and the wife enjoys the sun the children notice a man that seems to have something to hide.
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God bless this house
Title: God bless this house
Released: December 26, 1979
Type: Movie
A couple are going through a divorce, but once one of their children gets injured they start taking care of it, and maybe each other also.
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Story of a Murder
Title: Story of a Murder
Character: Herra B
Released: March 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Middle aged bourgeoisie couple lives a loveless life along with their beautiful eighteen year old daughter. The man has a passionate desire for the girl who in fact is not his real daughter but the fruit of an affair of the woman early in the marriage. This leads to tragic events.