Edda Björgvinsdóttir

Edda Björgvinsdóttir

Born: September 13, 1952

Movies for Edda Björgvinsdóttir...

Title: Fractures
Character: Lísbet
Released: April 17, 2022
Type: TV
Drama series about Kristín, an emergency doctor who moves with her teenage daughter back to her parents' home in a small fishing village, following her own husband's affair. Kristín, who is grounded and rational, quickly realises she is out of her comfort zone communicating with her mother, a medium, and finds herself forced to look the ghosts of her past directly in the eye.
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Quake
Title: Quake
Character: Dídí
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Saga gets hit by a fierce epileptic attack walking in a public park with her six-year-old son resulting in a total memory loss. Afraid of being considered unable to take care of her son, Saga attempts to hide her state from others and occupies herself digging for the answers she needs from within. As she struggles to gather bits and pieces from her forgotten life, repressed memories that Saga unconsciously blocked as a child suddenly start to come back, revealing a painful truth about herself and her past.
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Grandma Hófí
Title: Grandma Hófí
Character: Hófi
Released: July 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Senior citizens Hófí and Pétur feel discarded by a system that has no use for them. They're tired of living in a poorly retirement home and plan to rob a bank to finally buy a place for themselves. Standing in their way are both hardened criminals and inept cops, but these are the most sly seniors around and they're going to show everyone that you can still teach and old dog new tricks...
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Shadowtown
Title: Shadowtown
Character: María
Released: March 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for.
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Title: The Valhalla Murders
Character: Svava
Released: December 26, 2019
Type: TV
An Oslo detective with a painful past returns to his native Iceland to help a dedicated cop hunt a serial killer with a link to a mysterious photo.
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Pity the Lovers
Title: Pity the Lovers
Character: Guðrún
Released: January 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Óskar and Maggi are two brothers, longing for love but seemingly doomed to stay single. Óskar shies from relationships but is secretly in love with his childhood sweetheart Anna, engaged to another and safely out of reach. Maggi on the other hand is overly eager and goes from one relationship to another, hoping for eternal love each time. A film about the complexity of human relations and the searching for love.
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Let Me Fall
Title: Let Me Fall
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: September 7, 2018
Type: Movie
When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross again, and a reckoning between them becomes unavoidable.
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Under the Tree
Title: Under the Tree
Character: Inga
Released: September 6, 2017
Type: Movie
When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
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Spooks and Spirits
Title: Spooks and Spirits
Released: March 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Ofeigur, the passed away father of Anna Sol walks again and starts to involve her life and her boyfriend, Ingi Brjann. The young couples are going to sell the house of the dead but Ofeigur is not very happy with that and tries to convince them not to do it. The intervention of the ghost is so irritating that Ingi Brjann tries to get him away by using methods from an old magic book.
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Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh
Title: Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh
Character: Steinunn
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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Stella Runs for Office
Title: Stella Runs for Office
Character: Stella
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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Dramarama
Title: Dramarama
Character: Hanna
Released: January 19, 2001
Type: Movie
Five stories interwine into one. A blind man hovers above the city. Everything looks set for a perfectly normal evening in Reykjavík, until the the power goes off?
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Pearls and Swine
Title: Pearls and Swine
Character: Marta
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two have quarreled. Marta can't abide mom's rebellion or the rival bakery's success, so she inveigles Finnbogi to invest in porn toys without telling Lisa. Where does he get the cash? From his son Bjartmar, who has promised Russian sailors he'll arrange the purchase of ten Landas. The Russians are coming to collect their cars, Finnbogi hasn't sold a single dildo, hard-bitten Marta plans one more nasty trick. How can Lisa get her cruise?
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Áramótaskaup: 1994
Title: Áramótaskaup: 1994
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
1994's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.
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The Sacred Mound
Title: The Sacred Mound
Character: Gestur's Mother
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.
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The White Viking
Title: The White Viking
Character: Bergthora
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism.
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The Icelandic Shock Station
Title: The Icelandic Shock Station
Character: Stella
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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Reykjavik, Reykjavik
Title: Reykjavik, Reykjavik
Released: August 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A dramatized documentary about the capital of Iceland, Reykjavík. The city is seen through the eyes of a visitor, a Canadian girl of Icelandic descent, who marvels at the many charms and peculiarities of Reykjavík. The film was made on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the city.
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Love in a Supermarket
Title: Love in a Supermarket
Released: June 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Albert works in the meat section of a convenience store who falls in love with a woman who frequents the store.
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Pink Bowties
Title: Pink Bowties
Released: December 26, 1985
Type: Movie
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Golden Sands
Title: Golden Sands
Character: Ásthildur
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A political comedy about the effects of the apparent discovery of gold in the sands near a small community on Iceland's south coast. Troops from the American NATO base "invade" the territory, journalists from Reykjavik arrive and the morals of the local inhabitants quickly turn topsy-turvy.
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When the Raven Flies
Title: When the Raven Flies
Character: Gest's Sister
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.