Half Elf

Sep 19, 2020

1h 5m

★ 10.0

Overview

A lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with his inner elf. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on the Icelandic coast for over seventy years. Her love of books is matched by his love of stones. When he tells her he wants to change his name to Elf she warns him that the family will reject him. Now, as his one hundredth birthday nears and Trausti senses the hand of death upon him, he is searching for an elf’s coffin…

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

SKAK bíófilm

Pandistan

AllRitesReversed

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Cast

himself

Trausti Breiðfjörð Magnússon

herself

Hulda Jónsdóttir

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Half Elf

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