A documentary film about the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, who received the Nobel Prize in 1955 for "... renewing the Icelandic tradition of saga-literature and the Icelandic language". The film gives a portrait of this great writer who was very much disliked as a young artist, when he was describing the situation in Iceland between the first and the second world wars. To date, he has written over 70 books, novels, essays, plays and memories which have been translated into more than 50 languages.
Ralph Christians
Director
Þorgeir Gunnarsson
Director
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
McQueen74%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
A Plastic Ocean75%
180° South72%
Public Speaking70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Above Majestic73%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Being James Bond77%
Sherman's March67%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
And the Oscar Goes To...68%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Night Will Fall76%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Extremis69%
