Pétur Einarsson

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Oct 31, 1940 (84 years old)

Pétur Einarsson

Known For

Metalhead
1h 37m
Movie 2013

Metalhead

A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.

Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh
1h 30m
Movie 2011

Ravens, Buttercups and Myrrh

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.

The Messanger
1h 37m
Movie 2010

The Messanger

Páll thinks he is just like everyone else, that is until he begins to have vivid visions about life after death. At first he has a open mind about them, but discovers through them an evil plot. The visions show him a spree of killing of important people within society. A panic ensues, and Páll gets tangled in a plot with powerful people and a cult that could destroy society.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace
0h 40m
Movie 2010

Sleep in Heavenly Peace

The Nail
0h 16m
Movie 2008

The Nail

Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert acts out and suffers the consequences.

The Box of Chocolates
0h 30m
Movie 2008

The Box of Chocolates

Ragnar, straight out of hospital, orders a taxi-driver around Reykjavik in order to find a three layered chocolate box. He wants to repay a nurse for her good service at the hospital. After each unsuccessful stop at various grocery stores, his daughter, Hrönn, gets increasingly agitated in the back seat of the cab. Tension between father and daughter build to a peak, and it becomes crucial for Hrönn to confront her father for the first time in her life.

Rattlesnakes
0h 23m
Movie 2007

Rattlesnakes

Some people have to live their lives on a constant look out for snakes. Some even have to wear boots all the time. But people in Iceland have the privilege of just wearing whatever shoes they want – without any worries.

Eleven Men Out
1h 27m
Movie 2005

Eleven Men Out

The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism

Wine of the House
0h 12m
Movie 2004

Wine of the House

A short film about how everything that can go wrong goes so bad that going wrong takes on a new meaning.

Njalssaga
0h 52m
Movie 2003

Njalssaga

TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga

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