Summerland

Sep 17, 2010

1h 25m

★ 5.7

Overview

An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions. Their house is built around an elf stone, which is sacred to the wife Lara, who is blessed with a sixth sense. When they get an offer to sell the stone at a high price, her husband Óskar is really tempted.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

BlueEyes Productions

Summerland Trailers

Cast

Lára

Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir

Kjartan Guðjónsson

Snorri Engilbertsson

Hallfríður Þóra Tryggvadóttir

Arnbjörg Hlíf Valsdóttir

Nokkvi Helgason

Guðmundur Ólafsson

Wolfgang Müller

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