Gauragangur
Gunnar B. Guðmundsson
SYNOPSIS
Ormur, a teenager who believes himself to be the a genius poet, comes to face with trials and tribulations of adulthood and needs to grow up quickly.
GENERAL INFO
- Original title:
- Gauragangur
- English title:
- Hullabaloo
- Original language:
- Icelandic
- Genre:
- Family Comedy
- Producers:
- Þórir Snær Sigurjónsson, Skúli Fr. Malmquist
- Director:
- Gunnar B. Guðmundsson
- Script:
- Gunnar B. Guðmundsson og Ottó G. Borg
- Main cast:
- Alexander Briem, Eygló Hilmarsdóttir, Hildur Arndal, Atli Óskar Fjalarson
- Production company:
- Zik Zak Filmworks
- Cinematographer:
- Tómas Tómasson
- Editor:
- Sævar Guðmundsson
- Sound designer:
- Ingvar Lundberg, Kjartan Kjartansson
- Music by:
- Jón Ólafsson
- Country:
- Iceland
- Sound:
- Dolby
- Running time:
- 105 minutes
- Screening format:
- Digital
- Screening format:
- Digital
- Production format:
- Digital
- Film gauge/aspect ratio:
- 1:2:35
- Premiere date and year:
- 22nd of December 2010
- International release:
- 2011
- Longer synopsis:
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The time is 20 years and a few months to the millennium, and the unrecognized, self-proclaimed genius Orm Odins has to deal with the age-old existentialist dilemma that is teenage hood. With his final exams looming, his hormones in overdrive and love just around the corner what can a great poet do to survive?
Our setting is Reykjavik in the eighties, a city that is going through a growth spur not unlike our eloquent hero. The mullet is just about to put its mark on a unsuspecting generation, there is no TV on Thursdays, only one radio station, beer is still and outlawed commodity and somewhere within the city limits the first female president in the world will see has a dream.
During the span of a few months Orm grows from a carefree teenage boy to a responsible adult. His antics cause him, and his closest circle of friends and family, often a heap of trouble with the school authorities and his fellow students. He even goes as far as to get a glimpse into the Icelandic penal system.
Like so many angry young men Orm has an opinion about everything, and nothing escapes his sarcastic outlook on life. He never for a moment thinks that some things could be better left unsaid and it doesn't matter if the subject is poverty, snobbery, poetics or alchemy. Even though many would disagree with him in his mind he's always right. Until one day he can't talk himself anymore out of trouble.
CAST
Alexander Briem, Eygló Hilmarsdóttir, Hildur Arndal, Atli Óskar Fjalarson
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