Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (born 12 May 1954; pronounced [ˈfrɪðrɪk ˈθouËr ˈfrɪðrɪxsÉ”n]), sometimes credited as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, is an Icelandic film director and producer. Fridriksson started his film making career with experimental films and documentaries in the early 1980s. In 1987, he founded The Icelandic Film Corporation that became Iceland’s most important film production company. The company produces his films and works with other Icelandic directors as well as producers. His international reputation led the company to build a network of internationally well-established co-production partner companies, including Lars von Trier’s Zentropa and Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope.
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Friðrik Þór Friðriksson |
| Also Know | Фридрик Тоур ФридрикÑÑон, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | ReykjavÃk, Iceland |
| Date of Birth | May 12, 1954 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 68 |
| Deathday |
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Investigation Into the Invisible World | 2002-10-29 | A feature length documentary shot in Iceland on mediums and the relationship between humans and invisible beings such as elves ghosts, angels, water m… | |
| I Am Curious, Film | Self | 1995-10-28 | The Scandinavian entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries… |
| Plan B | 2000-11-24 | Two men in their late twenties, Jim and Frank, old friends from childhood, both emaciated and very grunge guys, meet again after many years. Jim, tryi… | |
| The Boss of It All | Finnur | 2006-09-21 | An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company’s president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander…. |
| Grand marin | 2023-01-11 | Lili has left everything behind to travel to the edge of the earth and accomplish her dream, fishing the Northern seas. She persuades Ian, the captain… | |
| Children of Nature | Taxi Driver | 1991-08-01 | An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords…. |
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Angels of the Universe | Director | 2000-01-01 | The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people h… |
| Children of Nature | Director | 1991-08-01 | An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords…. |
| Devil’s Island | Director | 1996-10-03 | Devil’s Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik’s post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US mili… |
| On Top Down Under | Director | 2002-08-31 | On Top – Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer … to bathing in the hot springs … to when they first… |
| Niceland (Population. 1.000.002) | Director | 2004-01-01 | Jet lives a joyful life working at a factory with his girlfriend who he’s deeply in love with. Shortly after they decide to get married and live toget… |
| Movie Days | Director | 1994-06-30 | This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 19… |
| Falcons | Director | 2002-09-27 | Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young wom… |
| The Ring Road | Director | 1985-03-02 | Experimental film of a trip around Iceland, filmed on the circular highway with a wide angle lens camera registering one frame every 12 seconds…. |
| Mamma Gógó | Director | 2010-01-01 | Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While G… |
| White Whales | Director | 1987-02-14 | A whale-boat is making its final whaling tour of the season. It pursues and catches a whale, and then proceeds home. The men working on the boat have … |
| Rock in Reykjavik | Director | 1982-04-17 | Rokk à ReykjavÃk (Rock in Reykjavik) gives a thorough overview of the powerful and expanding rock scene in Iceland. Most of the film consists of per… |
| Horizon | Director | 2015-09-13 | Oscar-nominated director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and co-director Bergur Bernburg helm this lovely documentary portrait of influential Icelandic lands… |
| The Sunshine Boy | Director | 2009-01-01 | A Mother’s Courage (aka The Sunshine Boy) is a moving, compassionate portrayal of a mother’s desperate quest to understand the perplexing condition th… |
| The Saga of Burnt Njál | Director | 1981-08-06 | A tale of how Njál, a character from the Icelandic Sagas, is burned at the stake…. |
| 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero | Director | 2011-12-22 | An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was … |
| Cold Fever | Director | 1995-02-10 | A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual wh… |
| Pretty Angels | Director | 1990-02-18 | No plot found… |
| Flugþrá | Director | 1989-05-27 | No plot found… |
| Nomina Sunt Odiosa | Director | 1975-03-01 | Nomina Sunt Odiosa is Fridrik Thór Fridriksson’s first film. The title is in Latin and means names are not necessary even pointless. Maybe that was… |
| Icelandic Cowboys | Director | 1984-11-03 | In the summer of 1984, Iceland’s king of country music, Hallbjörn Hjartarson, arranged the first and only Icelandic cowboy-festival. This celebration… |
| Director | A woman falls overboard during a rafting trip in Skagafjörður, hits her head on a rock and later dies without having gained consciousness. Her mothe… | ||
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Dancer in the Dark | Producer | 2000-06-30 | Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder a… |
| Witchcraft | Producer | 1999-11-26 | The young and fanatical Jon is appointed pastor to a remote church in 15th century Iceland. As is custom, he marries the widow of his predecessor, a w… |
| Of Horses and Men | Producer | 2013-08-30 | A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The… |
| Sweet Track | Producer | 1997-08-14 | In search of kicks in Reykjavik in the year 2000, a pretty teenager, Stella, teams up with a handsome alcoholic, Robbi, and in a stolen car careers th… |
| Sweety Barrett | Co-Producer | 1999-04-16 | Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unle… |
| Children of Nature | Producer | 1991-08-01 | An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords…. |
| Mihkel | Producer | 2018-10-11 | Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himse… |
| White Whales | Producer | 1987-02-14 | A whale-boat is making its final whaling tour of the season. It pursues and catches a whale, and then proceeds home. The men working on the boat have … |
| Wildside | Producer | 1998-05-07 | Charming desperado Ossy, carrying a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, wil… |
| No Such Thing | Producer | 2001-05-12 | Beatrice’s fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by contacting a scien… |
| Privacy | Producer | 1995-08-09 | Alexander, a twenty-year-old student, his girlfriend and a schoolmate discover the ins and outs of film-making while shooting a documentary about his … |
| The Split | Producer | 1999-02-10 | Sol Jensen, a young Icelandic woman, and Halil Atesh, originally from the countryside in Turkey, meet in Reykjavik and fall passionately in love. Ten … |
| In Search of Livingstone | Producer | 2014-02-01 | Thor and Denni’s desperate search for tobacco along the south coast of Iceland during a shortage due to a prolonged strike in the country…. |
| Little Cosmonaut | Producer | 2011-09-25 | A short film about a young boy’s escape from reality, the search for love and security, about cryptic messages from outer space and an invisible frien… |
| Rock in Reykjavik | Producer | 1982-04-17 | Rokk à ReykjavÃk (Rock in Reykjavik) gives a thorough overview of the powerful and expanding rock scene in Iceland. Most of the film consists of per… |
| Devil’s Island | Producer | 1996-10-03 | Devil’s Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik’s post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US mili… |
| Angels of the Universe | Producer | 2000-01-01 | The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people h… |
| Underwater Iceland | Producer | 1997-05-09 | Marko Röhr’s film crew takes the viewer to Europe’s last unexplored area: Iceland’s unique underwater world. We explore the geysers of boiling waters… |
| Loss | Producer | An old man comes home with the ashes of his dead wife in an urn. As he waits for the kettle to boil, the relentless hissing of boiling water brings to… | |
| Guy X | Co-Producer | 2005-06-06 | A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base…. |
| Cold Light | Producer | 2004-01-01 | What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe… |
| Falcons | Producer | 2002-09-27 | Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young wom… |
| Ikingut | Executive Producer | 2000-01-01 | In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an… |
| Crossroads | Producer | 2001-10-31 | Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually takes them to an unknown emotional territory bouncin… |
| Slurpinn & Co. | Co-Producer | 1998-01-01 | No plot found… |
| Nomina Sunt Odiosa | Producer | 1975-03-01 | Nomina Sunt Odiosa is Fridrik Thór Fridriksson’s first film. The title is in Latin and means names are not necessary even pointless. Maybe that was… |
| Icelandic Cowboys | Producer | 1984-11-03 | In the summer of 1984, Iceland’s king of country music, Hallbjörn Hjartarson, arranged the first and only Icelandic cowboy-festival. This celebration… |
| ERRÓ – North – South – East – West | Producer | 2000-04-19 | A collage-like film that mixes interviews with painter Erró and his collaborators, family and friends with visuals of his paintings and extracts from… |
| Rúnturinn I | Producer | 2016-05-14 | Rúnturinn, is a documentary in the purest sense of the word and yet at the same time it explores the limits of this field. The film stock had lain do… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Cold Fever | Screenplay | 1995-02-10 | A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual wh… |
| Movie Days | Writer | 1994-06-30 | This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 19… |
| Children of Nature | Screenplay | 1991-08-01 | An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords…. |
| The Ring Road | Writer | 1985-03-02 | Experimental film of a trip around Iceland, filmed on the circular highway with a wide angle lens camera registering one frame every 12 seconds…. |
| On Top Down Under | Screenplay | 2002-08-31 | On Top – Iceland, a lighthouse, a cold winter evening. Her thoughts drift back to that summer … to bathing in the hot springs … to when they first… |
| White Whales | Screenplay | 1987-02-14 | A whale-boat is making its final whaling tour of the season. It pursues and catches a whale, and then proceeds home. The men working on the boat have … |
| Plan B | Writer | 2000-11-24 | Two men in their late twenties, Jim and Frank, old friends from childhood, both emaciated and very grunge guys, meet again after many years. Jim, tryi… |
| Mamma Gógó | Writer | 2010-01-01 | Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While G… |
| Falcons | Writer | 2002-09-27 | Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young wom… |
| Flugþrá | Screenplay | 1989-05-27 | No plot found… |
| Nomina Sunt Odiosa | Screenplay | 1975-03-01 | Nomina Sunt Odiosa is Fridrik Thór Fridriksson’s first film. The title is in Latin and means names are not necessary even pointless. Maybe that was… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Icelandic Cowboys | Director of Photography | 1984-11-03 | In the summer of 1984, Iceland’s king of country music, Hallbjörn Hjartarson, arranged the first and only Icelandic cowboy-festival. This celebration… |
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