Edda Björgvinsdóttir

Acting

Edda Björgvinsdóttir

Born 1952-09-13

Acting credits

Quake poster
5.5

Saga gets hit by a fierce epileptic attack walking in a public park with her six-year-old son resulting in a total memory loss. Afraid of being considered unable to take care of her son, Saga attempts to hide her state from others and occupies herself digging for the answers she needs from within. As she struggles to gather bits and pieces from her forgotten life, repressed memories that Saga unconsciously blocked as a child suddenly start to come back, revealing a painful truth about herself and her past.

Quake

2021

Áramótaskaup: 2014 poster
6.0

Áramótaskaup: 2014 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

Áramótaskaup: 2014

2014

Under the Tree poster
6.6

When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Under the Tree

2017

No artwork available
NR

On opening night at the Reykjavík City Theatre, veteran actress Ingrid is thrown into turmoil when a foreign journalist arrives, igniting a backstage confrontation laced with regret, secrets, and decades-old wounds.

Polyorama

The Sacred Mound poster
5.3

A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.

The Sacred Mound

1993

Áramótaskaup: 2025 poster
7.0

Áramótaskaup: 2025 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

Áramótaskaup: 2025

2025

Áramótaskaup: 1994 poster
9.0

1994's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.

Áramótaskaup: 1994

1994

Dramarama poster
6.6

Five stories interwine into one. A blind man hovers above the city. Everything looks set for a perfectly normal evening in Reykjavík, until the the power goes off?

Dramarama

2001

Singing city 7 poster
NR

Songs and games with Sigga and Maria

Singing city 7

2015

Pink Bowties poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pink Bowties

1985

Golden Sands poster
8.0

A political comedy about the effects of the apparent discovery of gold in the sands near a small community on Iceland's south coast. Troops from the American NATO base "invade" the territory, journalists from Reykjavik arrive and the morals of the local inhabitants quickly turn topsy-turvy.

Golden Sands

1984

Let Me Fall poster
5.9

When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross again, and a reckoning between them becomes unavoidable.

Let Me Fall

2018

Pearls and Swine poster
6.1

Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two have quarreled. Marta can't abide mom's rebellion or the rival bakery's success, so she inveigles Finnbogi to invest in porn toys without telling Lisa. Where does he get the cash? From his son Bjartmar, who has promised Russian sailors he'll arrange the purchase of ten Landas. The Russians are coming to collect their cars, Finnbogi hasn't sold a single dildo, hard-bitten Marta plans one more nasty trick. How can Lisa get her cruise?

Pearls and Swine

1997

When the Raven Flies poster
6.6

Vikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Twenty years later the boy returns to Iceland take his revenge.

When the Raven Flies

1984

Love in a Supermarket poster
NR

Albert works in the meat section of a convenience store who falls in love with a woman who frequents the store.

Love in a Supermarket

1986

Stella Runs for Office poster
5.3

Stella and Salomon run a business together, framkoma.is. Salomon is hired by Anton Skúlason, pilot, to beautify and transform a village, that he owns. Stella stays in the town and starts teaching politicians how to act for the coming elections. By accident Stella gets involved with the Centrum party, the main rival of the Central party, and before she knows it she's head over heals in politics.

Stella Runs for Office

2002

The White Viking poster
6.6

Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism.

The White Viking

1991

Shadowtown poster
3.9

A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for.

Shadowtown

2020

Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh poster
4.0

After Lára, 13, loses both her father and brother in an accident, she discovers that her father used to be a member of a theatre group at a local theatre. In order to keep his memory alive, she joins the company. The company consists of eccentric and playful elders who introduce Lára to the magic of theatre and the importance of play. While Lára struggles to piece together the fractured life she now shares with her mother, she decides to help the company in their attempt to save the theatre with a big hit play. But evil and corrupt forces want it gone forever.

Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh

2011

The Icelandic Shock Station poster
6.5

The Icelandic Shock-Station is a thoroughbred Icelandic comedy, where the Icelander's daily life and habits are elevated to the level of farcical confusion and where all the laws of common sense are reversed in travesty of themselves, while at the same time the opportunity is taken to satirize some of the features the scriptwriter feels are blemish on the otherwise smooth facade of the nation's character.

The Icelandic Shock Station

1986

Grandma Hófí poster
5.0

Senior citizens Hófí and Pétur feel discarded by a system that has no use for them. They're tired of living in a poorly retirement home and plan to rob a bank to finally buy a place for themselves. Standing in their way are both hardened criminals and inept cops, but these are the most sly seniors around and they're going to show everyone that you can still teach and old dog new tricks...

Grandma Hófí

2020

Reykjavik, Reykjavik poster
NR

A dramatized documentary about the capital of Iceland, Reykjavík. The city is seen through the eyes of a visitor, a Canadian girl of Icelandic descent, who marvels at the many charms and peculiarities of Reykjavík. The film was made on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the city.

Reykjavik, Reykjavik

1986

Spooks and Spirits poster
2.5

Ofeigur, the passed away father of Anna Sol walks again and starts to involve her life and her boyfriend, Ingi Brjann. The young couples are going to sell the house of the dead but Ofeigur is not very happy with that and tries to convince them not to do it. The intervention of the ghost is so irritating that Ingi Brjann tries to get him away by using methods from an old magic book.

Spooks and Spirits

2013

Pity the Lovers poster
6.0

Óskar and Maggi are two brothers, longing for love but seemingly doomed to stay single. Óskar shies from relationships but is secretly in love with his childhood sweetheart Anna, engaged to another and safely out of reach. Maggi on the other hand is overly eager and goes from one relationship to another, hoping for eternal love each time. A film about the complexity of human relations and the searching for love.

Pity the Lovers

2019

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