ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE

ENGLAR ALHEIMSINS

By Fridrik Thor FRIDRIKSSON

ICELANDIC FILM CENTRE - as FIN

Drama - Completed 2000

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
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ICELAND
    • Languages
    • ICELANDIC
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Fridrik Thor FRIDRIKSSON
    • Writer(s)
    • Einar Mar GUDMUNDSSON
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/4166-871D-24DC-A055-443C-O
    • Producer(s)
    • Fridrik Thor FRIDRIKSSON (Icelandic Film Corporation), Egil ØDEGÅRD (Filmhuset Produksjoner AS), Peter Aalbæk JENSEN, (Zentropa Entertainments)
    • Synopsis
    • 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.