Brúðguminn (2008)

Director:

Baltasar Kormákur

Writers:

Baltasar Kormákur (screenplay) and
Ólafur Egilsson (screenplay)

Release Date:

18 January 2008 (Iceland)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age...

Plot Keywords:

Island | Church | Golf | Golf Course | Wedding

Awards:

8 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Hilmir Snær Guðnason	...	Jón
Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir	...	Anna
Laufey Elíasdóttir	...	Þóra
Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson	...	Börkur
Jóhann Sigurðarson	...	Lárus
Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir	...	Sísí
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson	...	Sjonni
Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir	...	Matthildur
Ólafur Egilsson	...	Séra Ólafur
Herdís Þorvaldsdóttir	...	Kristín
Karl Guðmundsson	...	Jon's father
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ervin Shala	...	Guest (uncredited)
Birgitta Sigursteinsdóttir	...	Extra (2008) (uncredited)

Directed by
Baltasar Kormákur

Writing credits
Baltasar Kormákur		(screenplay) and
Ólafur Egilsson		(screenplay)

Produced by
Agnes Johansen	....	producer
Baltasar Kormákur	....	producer
Kim Magnusson	....	associate producer
Lilja Pálmadóttir	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Sigurður Bjóla
Jón Ólafsson

Cinematography by
Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson

Film Editing by
Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir

Production Design by
Atli Geir Grétarsson
Grétar Reynisson

Costume Design by
Helga I. Stefánsdóttir

Makeup Department
Áslaug Dröfn Sigurdardóttir	....	makeup artist

Art Department
Davíð Örn Arnarson	....	stand by props

Sound Department
Arni Gustafsson	....	boom operator
Steingrímur E. Guðmundsson	....	sound recordist
Kjartan Kjartansson	....	sound designer
Ingvar Lundberg	....	sound re-recording mixer
Björn Viktorsson	....	dialog editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Omar Jabali	....	first assistant camera
Geir Magnússon	....	gaffer

Editorial Department
Mette Høst Hansen	....	post-production coordinator
Marta R. Traustadóttir	....	assistant editor

Production Companies

• Blueeyes Productions

Distributors

• Tamasa Distribution (2010) (France) (theatrical)
• Videorama (2009) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Cinemax (2009) (Hungary) (TV)
• NonStop Entertainment (2009) (Sweden) (all media)

Other Companies

• Kukl  equipment provided by

Also Known As:

"White Night Wedding" - Europe (English title)

Runtime:

96 min | Canada:96 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

Iceland

Language:

Icelandic | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Sweden:7

Filming Locations:

Flatey, Iceland

Company:

Blueeyes Productions

Trivia:

Iceland's official entry for the 2009 foreign-language Oscar.

Wild love story

This Icelandic comedy takes part on an island outside the northwest coast. They have a church, a priest, German tourists, a grocery, a white trasher who wants to start a golf business and most of all...they've got this middle-aged philosophy teacher, who wants to start a new life with his mentally weak wife.

But he meets this young girl and the circus is on. Or the chaos. The first half of this film is full of flashbacks. The content is both very tragical and most comical, but in this case, they don't match.

A good try perhaps, but not enough of it to make this a good movie. And the flashback technique could have been used with some moderation.