Benedikt Erlingsson
Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May 1969; Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor and theater and film director. He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994 and has been with the National Theater of Iceland for most of his career. He has directed two feature-length films, both of which have won the Nordic Council Film Prize.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4219 |
| Birthday | 1969-05-31 |
| Place of Birth | Reykjavik, Iceland |
| Also Known As |
2006
The Boss of It All
6.609/320
The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexist...
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The Boss of It All
2002
Memphis
0/0
To start with we are led to believe the setting is a country-hotel of some sort. In the end we discover this is a State Rehabilitation Facility and ev...
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Memphis
2008
The Nail
6/1
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 ac...
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The Nail
2007
Rattlesnakes
0/0
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 priv...
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Rattlesnakes
2006
She Talks Icelandic
0/0
The fate of a crosseyed sheep in the highlands of Iceland.
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She Talks Icelandic
2003
Njalssaga
7/1
TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga. The first part of Njálssaga is a half-hour long drama based on a part of Bren...
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Njalssaga
2001
The Seagull's Laughter
5.656/16
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dres...
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The Seagull's Laughter
2011
Volcano
6.9/31
Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for h...
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Volcano
2008
The Higher Force
5.6/5
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...
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The Higher Force
2009
Circledrawers
0/0
Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of t...
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Circledrawers
2002
The Lost Little Caterpillar
5.5/2
little grub ugly - lands in a variety of adventures in her garden. A leisurely bell bumps into her, she meets a friendly worm, bullied in a bully of b...
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The Lost Little Caterpillar
2011
Polite People
6.2/4
A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterho...
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Polite People
2011
The Viking Sagas
5.3/5
Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about one of the most compelling of the great Viking stor...
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The Viking Sagas
2024
Touch
7.357/112
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what r...
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Touch
1998
The Dance
6.2/5
Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance by William Heinesen, and set on an island in 1913....
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The Dance
2016
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
6.6/78
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards t...
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
2021
Hver drap Friðrik Dór?
6/1
Villi Neto investigates the potential death of singer Friðrik Dór. On his hunt for truth Villi discovers that the conspiracy is much larger and deeper...
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Hver drap Friðrik Dór?
1998
Doomsday
0/0
Follows the infamous Sólborgarcase where a mother and her brother were accused of killing their newborn.
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Doomsday
2007
Parents
5.8/8
The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar i...
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Parents
2016
Áramótaskaup: 2016
3/1
Áramótaskaup: 2016 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.
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Áramótaskaup: 2016
2024
When the Light Breaks
6.7/36
When the light breaks on a long summer's day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and...
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