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02/09/2005 Drama, Comedy 1h 27m
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The beautiful game just got prettier.

Overview

The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism

  1. Róbert I. Douglas

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Björn Hlynur Haraldsson

    Ottar Thor

  2. Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir

    Gugga

  3. Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson

    Magnus

  4. Helgi Björnsson

    Pétur

  5. Þorsteinn Bachmann

    Georg

  6. Sigurður Skúlason

    Eirikur

  7. Damon Younger

    Brósi

  8. Marius Sverrisson

    Starri

  9. Hilmar Jónsson

    Viktor Ingi

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Reviews

A review by bobbeijing
Written by bobbeijing on 2015-04-14
Ottar Thor (Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson) is the handsome, arrogant star player of a pro soccer team, as well as main breadwinner for a family in which the overbearing males seem to spend most of their time telling long-suffering wives to shaddap. Ottar is divorced from his spouse, a former Miss Iceland (Lilja Nott as Gugga) turned full-time alcoholic. They share custody of adolescent son Magnus (Arnmundur Ernst), who buries himself in videogames.

Ottar doesn’t think about the repercussions when he decides to tell a journalist — in the locker room after a game — that he’s gay. His motiva...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Icelandic

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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