Iceland
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Request QuoteHjalmtyr Heiddal (Writer / director / producer / cameraman) has been active in filmmaking since 1980. Since 1982 he has written, directed and/or produced 19 documentaries, one offs and series plus 18 TVdocs and educational films and interactive material. Hjalmtyr has been the representative for Icelandic filmmakers in Filmkontakt Nord and Nordic Panorama 5 Cities Film Festival and the European Documentary Network. He is the founder (in 2000) and director for 6 years of Reykjavik Shorts&Docs Film Festival. He has been attending festivals and Co-financing Forums in the Nordic countries and the European Continent and in the US since 1993. He has produced and/or directed documentary films shot in over 20 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and N-America.
The Stained Glass Windows had been salvaged from Coventry’s Medieval Cathedral before it was bombed out by the German Luftwaffe. But in 1942 they simply disappeared, stolen from the storage in Hampton Lucy. Much later, it is discovered that many of the stained glass windows had found their way to Iceland. How did this happen?
The Icelandic scholar Sveinn Bergsveinsson, a Communist in the 1930s, was trapped in Berlin by the outbreak of World War II and forced to work for the Nazi propaganda machine. Returning to Iceland, he found himself branded by both sides of the cold war political divide and barred from academic work. In desperation, he emigrated to East-Germany where he became a respected professor
The film has a strong and dramatic story, well known in Iceland in its outlines but practically unknown elsewhere. It is full of surprise elements. At the same time, its many of its traits are familiar in the present – fear and joy, loneliness and solidarity, disaster and coping with disaster, the clash of cultures. It has relevance today and striking analogies with with recents developments.
The documentary Black Peak - a war story, tells us how the Second World War collided with the peaceful countryside in Eyrarsveit county and how the legend of the crew and the airplane have lived on for more than 70 years.
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