Summerlight and Then Comes The Night

Oct 14, 2022

1h 51m

★ 6.5

Overview

The village is brimming with stories and if you listen closely it might tell you a few. Perhaps the one about the businessman who dreams in Latin, or the one about the delicate boy who carves moorland birds, or maybe the one of the open-air sexual affair that has explosive consequences.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Berserk Films

Polar Bear Films

Vilda Bomben Film

Stór og smá ehf

Sighvatsson Films

Pegasus Pictures

Silver Screen

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Cast

CEO

Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson

Davíð

Atli Óskar Fjalarsson

Ásdís

Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir

Kjartan

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Þuríður

Svandís Dóra Einarsdóttir

Elísabet

Heida Reed

Guðmundur

Þorsteinn Bachmann

Hannes

Jóhann Sigurðarson

Kristín

María Dögg Nelson

Doctor

Hinrik Ólafsson

Hrefna

Ebba Guðný Guðmundsdóttir

Sólrún

Anna María Pitt

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