Polite People

March. 31,2013

Rating：

5.6

Genre：

Drama Comedy

Keywords：

Iceland

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A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.

Stefán Karl Stefánsson as Lárus Skjaldarson

Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir as Margrét

Hilmir Snær Guðnason as Hrafnkell

Eggert Þorleifsson as Markell

Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir as Hanna

Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir as Elín

Benedikt Erlingsson as Þorgeir

Gunnar Hansson as Jónatan

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson as Þorsteinn

Joi Johannsson as Askur

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Reviews

Exoticalot

2013/03/31

People are voting emotionally.

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Tedfoldol

2013/04/01

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

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WiseRatFlames

2013/04/02

An unexpected masterpiece

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Bob

2013/04/03

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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thirdworldtyrant

2013/04/04

I saw this movie on an airplane a few years back, and I was just thinking about it again today. I liked it for several reasons:* Elite Icelandic actors, every performance is very convincing.* The script is funny in kind of a subtle manner (doesn't push the jokes to your face).* It was nice to look at the landscape in small-town Iceland.So as far as Icelandic movies go, I would say this one was quite memorable and I would recommend it.Those who have seen the movie and liked it should check out more stuff by the director Olaf and lead actor Stefan Karl.10/10

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