Life In A Fishbowl
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Life In A Fishbowl
A Film by Baldvin Z
2014 - Iceland - Drama - DCP - 2.35 - 130 min.
with Thorsteinn Bachmann , Hera Hilmarsdóttir & Thor Kristjánsson
Languages: English , Icelandic
Produced by Julius Kemp & Ingvar Thordarson
Reykjavik. After a tragedy, Writer Móri drinks himself into oblivion on a twenty-year binge. Eik, a young single mom moonlights as a prostitute to make ends meet. Young father and good husband, Sölvi, is recruited into the snake pit of the Icelandic international banking. Soon fate will make them meet.
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