Benedikt erlingsson biography of rory

This article is part of my project La Contra Islandia that puts Icelandic and Spanish cultures in contact. Read the full article in Spanish.

Benedikt Erlingsson was born on May 31, in Reykjavik, Iceland.

I love movies by Benedikt Erlingsson because their connection to Icelandic nature and traditions and his concern for climate change and environmental issues. Benedikt Erlingsson May is a talented Icelandic film director, script and play writer and actor. Is one of the most successful stage directors of the last decade in Iceland.

He has directed two short films, Thanks and The Nail His second movie, Woman at War , got the Nordic Council Film Prize and was the candidate of Iceland to the Oscars, even though he never had high expectations on that.

Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May ) is an Icelandic actor and theater and film director.

The father of Benedikt Erlingsson was an actor and his mother a theatre director and storyteller who helped him with his first script. When talking to Benedikt, his face is full of serenity, he keeps your attention like a magician, you almost can see the anecdotes he is describing and never loses the thread. Of horses and men is based on real facts.

For example, the scene where a farmer goes swimming with the horse to a an anchored foreign ship to buy alcohol no alcohol in Iceland at that time is really shocking. I strongly recommend Of horses and men because it sticks in your mind for a long time, the details work progressively in your brain. However, no horse suffer any harm. The people involved in the shooting were all horse lovers and horse owners».

I was very introduced in the horse culture and then I came out as a horse person with a horse and I have 5 horses today».