Eggert Þorleifsson

Eggert Þorleifsson

Born: July 18, 1952

Movies for Eggert Þorleifsson...

Polite People
Title: Polite People
Character: Markell
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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The Higher Force
Title: The Higher Force
Character: Haraldur
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Ashamed for being a debt-collecting thug, David believes that he is an ugly duckling waiting to become a swan. Through an unlikely mentor he finds out that life has indeed something very special in store for him.
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Laddi 6-tugur
Title: Laddi 6-tugur
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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Highway 48
Title: Highway 48
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A good couple on a Sunday drive has a car accident.
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The Priest, Deacon and Groom
Title: The Priest, Deacon and Groom
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
No plot found
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Ahead of Time
Title: Ahead of Time
Character: Dúddi
Released: December 26, 2004
Type: Movie
More than twenty years after the premiere of one of the most beloved Icelandic films (On Top/Med allt a hreinu 1982) a sequel appears. A band which folded twenty years ago (they were even considered old-fashioned then) sees fit to stage a comeback. Indications point to a great future until the ghosts of the past catch up with the band in the form of a single mother and a jolly roadie. We follow the band not only through the magnificent Icelandic landscape but also through two continents and a brief spell in the other world.
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Stella Runs for Office
Title: Stella Runs for Office
Character: Council member 1
Released: December 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Stella and Salomon run a business together, framkoma.is. Salomon is hired by Anton Skúlason, pilot, to beautify and transform a village, that he owns. Stella stays in the town and starts teaching politicians how to act for the coming elections. By accident Stella gets involved with the Centrum party, the main rival of the Central party, and before she knows it she's head over heals in politics.
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Fiasco
Title: Fiasco
Character: Samúel
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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Old Spice
Title: Old Spice
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: Movie
There is an old barbershop in the center of town. This is where Einar has cut hair for half a century or so. He has seen good times and bad times but independent from contemporary tendencies, he has always maintained his own style, but in recent years he has had to deal with the inevitable, his customers grow older, and one by one they slowly disappear. One day they simply don’t show up for their scheduled haircut. But what happens when one of his customers keeps coming after he is dead.
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Dream Hunters
Title: Dream Hunters
Character: Kvikmyndagerðarmaður
Released: March 21, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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When Dreams Come True
Title: When Dreams Come True
Released: February 3, 1995
Type: Movie
The staff at the bureau of values may be the greatest bureaucrats in the world, but they have the most colourful dreams, not to mention their nightmare Rosie, is like a breath of fresh air when she comes into the office just before closing-time, raising everybody’s spirits. Live action and animation combined in a comedy.
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The Resourceful Girl
Title: The Resourceful Girl
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A story of a ten year old girl, Erla, who finds a flute nobody else can hear and meets a boy nobody else can see. The boy turns out to be an elf who tells her that a spell has been cast on her father. Much to Erla's horror, her father is turned to stone when he's moving rocks around in the park, looking for worms. Erla's new found friend is the only one who can guide her on a search for a magic egg possessed by the big trolls in the mountains and said to be the only remedy for people who have been turned to stone.
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Behind Schedule
Title: Behind Schedule
Character: Egill
Released: April 6, 1993
Type: Movie
A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.
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Remote Control
Title: Remote Control
Character: Aggi Flinki
Released: September 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Since his mother wants to watch TV, Axel, a young auto-mechanic, must recover her remote control, accidentally taken by his punk sister Maja. During his quest, he becomes involved in the conflict between Moli, the liquor smuggler, and Aggi, a night club owner who wants to be Iceland's first mafia boss.
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Foxtrot
Title: Foxtrot
Character: Fox Hunter
Released: August 25, 1988
Type: Movie
Tommi and his half brother Kiddi travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker Lísa.
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The Icelandic Shock Station
Title: The Icelandic Shock Station
Character: Agúst læjónsmaður
Released: October 18, 1986
Type: Movie
The Icelandic Shock-Station is a thoroughbred Icelandic comedy, where the Icelander's daily life and habits are elevated to the level of farcical confusion and where all the laws of common sense are reversed in travesty of themselves, while at the same time the opportunity is taken to satirize some of the features the scriptwriter feels are blemish on the otherwise smooth facade of the nation's character.
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Pink Bowties
Title: Pink Bowties
Released: December 26, 1985
Type: Movie
No plot found
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A Policeman's Life
Title: A Policeman's Life
Character: Þór
Released: December 21, 1985
Type: Movie
Löggulíf is the third movie in the "-life" trilogy of knockabout comedies about the cheeky lads Thor and Danni. The others are New Life and Pastoral Life.
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Deep Winter
Title: Deep Winter
Character: Einar
Released: April 6, 1985
Type: Movie
The widow has inherited half of the farm, and is in league with a businessman from the village, who wants to buy the farm. Her purpose is to get her in-laws to sell her their share, and she is prepared to use any means to gain her ends. But soon she finds herself threatened by unknown persons or forces in the menacing winter landscape, to the point where her life is at stake.
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Pastoral Life
Title: Pastoral Life
Character: Þór
Released: October 4, 1984
Type: Movie
This is the story of how Þór and Danni run a farm. They get a job running a farm for a local farmer that is going on a vacation to sweden, they of course pronouns them selfs as experts in the field of agriculture, witch they of course aren't. When they have managed to get the "hold" of things they get the brilliant idea to have a agricultural seminar for city people on the farm.
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New Life
Title: New Life
Character: Þór
Released: September 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The film is the first of three about the misadventures of two friends, Þór and Danni. Two friends working at a restaurant get fired from their jobs and after seeing an advertisement for the fishing industry of the Westman Islands, decide to go there and make some money. The islands become a perfect setting for many funny and strange situations, especially after word gets around that the two are spies from the Ministry of Fisheries.
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On Top
Title: On Top
Character: Dúddi
Released: December 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Two rock groups, one male, the other female, decide to do a combined effort to hit the road of stardom by doing a show together. As the show is getting on the road, the lead singers of the two groups have a disagreement which brings about a parting of ways, in love as in life. A historic tour of the country begins, which through the music and performances of the two groups as well as the reactions of their audiences, reveals, beneath the comedy, glimpses of today's real competition between the sexes, seen against the background of Icelandic life.