White Night Wedding

Director : Baltasar Kormakur
Country : Iceland
Running Time: 96 mins.

The film is inspired by Anton Checkhov's stage play Ivanov and was filmed in the small island Flatey with an all-Icelandic cast and crew.Jon, a middle-aged professor is about to get married for the second time. This time to a young woman, half his age. There are those who oppose to the marriage, including his future parents-in-law. When the guests start flocking to the island where the marriage is to be held, the groom starts getting cold feet. His mind goes back to the year before, when he moved to the island with his first wife.

Baltasar Kormákur

Born in 1966. He graduated from The Drama Academy of Iceland and is one of Iceland's most popular and critically acclaimed actors of the younger generation, working amongst others with Oscar-nominee Fridrik Thór Fridriksson. But it is as a director and theatre entrepreneur he has really made his name. He has directed ten theatre productions, both at home and abroad. Baltasar Kormákur formed his own theatre with two partners and has directed a string of productions there as well as in The National Theatre of Iceland. His first film, 101 Reykjavík (00), shared the Discovery Award at the Toronto Festival. His subsequent features are The Sea (02), A Little Trip to Heaven (05), Jar City (06) and White Night Wedding (08).

Rating : 8.0/10