Completed - ICELANDIC - Drama - 97 minutes
Angels of the Universe portrays the life of Paul, who suffers from schizophrenia, and the way people react to his illness
Year of production : 2000 Director(s) : Fridrik Thor FRIDRIKSSON Writer(s) : Einar Mar GUDMUNDSSON Cast : Ingvar E. SIGURÐSSON, Baltasar KORMÁKUR, Björn Jörundur FRIÐBJÖRNSSON, Hilmir Snær GUÐNASON Producer(s) : Egil ØDEGÅRD (Filmhuset Produksjoner AS), Fridrik Thor FRIDRIKSSON (Icelandic Film Corporation), Peter Aalbæk JENSEN, (Zentropa Entertainments)
At first we see him with his family, childhood friends and the girl (Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir) that he loves, and then we follow him into the psychiatric hospital. There we meet his colorful companions Óli Beatle (Baltasar Kormákur), who believes he has written all the Beatles' songs and sent them to the group as telepathic messages; the sophisticated and erudite Viktor (Björn Jörundur), who sometimes suddenly turns into Hitler; and Peter (Hilmir Snær Gudnason), Paul's room-mate, who has freaked out on acid and is under the impression he wrote a doctorate about Schiller at a Chinese university.
Country(ies) : ICELAND