Baltasar Kormákur Trailers
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Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson is an Icelandic actor, theatre and film director, and producer. He is best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavík, The Sea, A Little Trip to Heaven, Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest, Touch, and the TV series Katla.
Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson was born in Reykjavík, Iceland. His father is the Catalan painter Baltasar Samper.
In 1999, Baltasar founded the film production company Blueeyes with his wife Lilja Pálmadóttir. Agnes Johansen is another producer at the company, and Dadi Einarsson joined later.
Baltasar won the Crystal Globe award for his film Jar City at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2007.
In December 2011, the production of the drama film Rocketman was announced, with Baltasar Kormákur and Dagur Kári set to direct.
Baltasar's 2012 film The Deep was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, making the January shortlist.
In January 2013, it was announced that a new film, Rocketman, would be produced by Baltasar with his partner Agnes Johansen, with Danish production company Nimbus Film co-producing. The film's expected release was in 2015.
In February 2015, it was announced that his next film would be the crime-thriller The Oath, which is based on a script by actor Ólafur Egilsson.
In 2020, Baltasar began production of the Netflix science fiction series Katla.
His 2024 film Touch became the closing film at Filmfest München.
Baltasar's wife is Lilja Pálmadóttir, and their son is actor Baltasar Breki Samper.
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30 September 2008
A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat.
20 March 2015
Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.
27 August 2010
A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.
26 December 2005
Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident.
20 October 2006
A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
06 September 2016
When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.
11 August 2022
A recently widowed man and his two teenage daughters travel to a game reserve in South Africa. However, their journey of healing soon turns into a fight for survival when a bloodthirsty lion starts to stalk them.
02 August 2013
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
18 January 2008
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age.
31 May 2018
Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
10 September 2015
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind.
12 January 2012
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt.
31 May 2000
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.
13 September 2002
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery.
26 December 2001
Regína is 10 years old. Her mother, Margrét, works at a home for the elderly and her father is dead.
07 September 2003
The psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown.
29 May 2024
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 really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
10 February 2022
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
03 October 1996
Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes.
10 February 1999
Sol Jensen, a young Icelandic woman, and Halil Atesh, originally from the countryside in Turkey, meet in Reykjavik and fall passionately in love.
22 December 1995
In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds.
01 July 2013
“I Am Victor” follows a skilled but morally corrupt and narcissistic divorce settlement lawyer who finds himself framed for a series of brutal murders thus starting his own investigation to find the killer.
04 May 2018
In an attempt to fix his financial problems, Erik recruits his brother, Atli, to help him import a shipment of cocaine into Iceland.
06 August 1992
Two young friends, Lass and Sveppi, run a nightclub in downtown Reykjavik. They hire a beautiful young singer, Sól, who has just moved from the countryside to the city in order to take singing lessons.
01 January 1988
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.
07 September 2012
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
01 December 1996
Latibær is full of colourful characters who have a very negative attitude towards physical activity, healthy food and so on.
29 March 2002
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
19 December 1992
A story in the form of a fairy tale, that tells of the time the Princess calls upon her hero to slay the modern day dragon.
12 October 1998
Popp í Reykjavík (Pop in Reykjavik) is a film about the vibrant Icelandic music culture of the late '90s.
01 January 2000
The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown.
17 September 2010
An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions.
28 December 2001
A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki.
29 October 2002
A feature length documentary shot in Iceland on mediums and the relationship between humans and invisible beings such as elves ghosts, angels, water monsters and extra-terrestrials.
21 March 1996
The smell of leather, whiskey and cigars: Two young girlfriends fall in love with the same man, an adventurous young businessman.
