Northern Comfort
Synopsis
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2023
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 97 min
- Director
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Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
- Producer
- Grímar Jónsson
- Editor
- Kristján Loðmfjörð
- Screenwriter
- Halldór Laxness Halldórsson, Tobias Munthe, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
- Director of Photography
- Niels Thastum
- Production Designer
- Eggert Ketilsson, Hulda Helgadóttir
- Composer
- Daníel Bjarnason
- Principal cast
- Lydia Leonard, Timothy Spall, Ella Rumpf, Sverrir Guðnason, Simon Manyonda, Rob Delaney
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Iceland, UK, Germany co-production
Good Chaos (UK), Netop Films (IS), ONE TWO Films (DE)
Sales Company
Charades (World sales excluding US)
Charades17 boulevard Jules Ferry
75011 Paris
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