Stormland (film)

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IcelandicRokland
Written by
Produced bySnorri Þórisson
Stormland
Film poster
IcelandicRokland
Directed byMarteinn Thorsson
Written by
Produced bySnorri Þórisson
StarringÓlafur Darri Ólafsson
CinematographyPhilip Robertson
Edited by
Music bySigtryggur Baldursson
Production
companies
  • Pegasus Pictures
  • Tenderlee Motion Pictures Company
Distributed bySambio (Iceland)
Release date
  • 14 January 2011 (2011-01-14)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryIceland
LanguageIcelandic

Stormland (Icelandic: Rokland) is a 2011 Icelandic comedy film directed by Marteinn Thorsson, based on Hallgrímur Helgason's 2005 novel, Rokland.[1][2]

Stormland tells the story of Böðvar "Böddi" Steingrímsson, an anti-establishment man who hates popular culture and idolizes certain characters from Icelandic sagas. He lives in the small town of Krókur with his overprotective mother, after having spent ten years studying philosophy in Germany. A series of mishaps befalls him as he struggles to adapt to his new life. He finds his mother dead in front of the television, gets fired from his teaching job, has a fight with a local business owner, and is rejected by the woman he loves. He gets another woman pregnant, and after the baby is born, Böddi decides to live with the mother, only to learn that he isn't the father after all. In the end, Böddi kills his brother and takes a doctor hostage at a women's hospital while being interviewed by a TV reporter.

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