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Noi the Albino (Icelandic: Nói albinói (About this sound pronunciation )) is an Icelandic film by director Dagur Kári released in 2003. The film explores the life of teenage outsider Nói (played by Tómas Lemarquis) in a remote fishing village in western Iceland. It won multiple awards. Nói albinói was filmed in Bolungarvik (pop. 957), a fishing village in the far northwest of Iceland, located on the Westfjords peninsula. The moody original musical score is from the director's band, Slowblow. The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan called the movie "singular enough to have swept the Eddas, the Icelandic Academy Awards" and noted that it was a selection in "dozens of film festivals." Skye Sherwin of the BBC called it "a coming-of-age tale, bound between grinding humdrum and exquisite surrealism."
Original Release
02/28/2003
US Release
08/28/2003
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tómas Lemarquis | Nói / Nói Kristmundsson |
Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson | Kiddi Beikon / B. Kristmundsson |
Elín Hansdóttir | Íris / Íris Óskarsdóttir |
Anna Friðriksdóttir | Lína |
Hjalti Rognvaldsson | Óskar / Óskar Halldórsson |
Pétur Einarsson | Prestur / Priester |
Kjartan Bjargmundsson | Gylfi |
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson | Þórarinn Skólastjóri |
Guðmundur Ólafsson | Alfreð Kennari |
Haraldur Jónsson | Teitur Sálfræðingur |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tómas Lemarquis | Nói / Nói Kristmundsson |
Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson | Kiddi Beikon / B. Kristmundsson |
Elín Hansdóttir | Íris / Íris Óskarsdóttir |
Anna Friðriksdóttir | Lína |
Hjalti Rognvaldsson | Óskar / Óskar Halldórsson |
Pétur Einarsson | Prestur / Priester |
Kjartan Bjargmundsson | Gylfi |
Þorsteinn Gunnarsson | Þórarinn Skólastjóri |
Guðmundur Ólafsson | Alfreð Kennari |
Haraldur Jónsson | Teitur Sálfræðingur |
Gérard Lemarquis | Frönskukennari |
Greipur Gíslason | Dabbi |
Páll Loftsson | Pabbi Dabba / Bankastjóri |
Ásdís Thoroddsen | Bankastarfsmaður |
Ásmundur Ásmudsson | Barþjónn |
Óttarr Proppé | Starfsmaður í Herrafataverslun |
Gunnhildur Björk Elíasdóttir | Afgreiðsludama í sjoppu |
Unnar Reynisson | Dyravörður |
Sveinn Geirsson | Lögga 1 / Björgunarmaður |
Þorgeir Guðmundsson | Lögga 2 |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Lene Ingemann | Executive Producer |
Tivi Magnusson | Executive Producer |
Michael Schmid-Ospach | Executive Producer |
Þorfinnur Ómarsson | Executive Producer |
Philippe Bober | Producer |
Bertrand Faivre | Producer |
Soledad Gatti-Pascual | Producer |
Kim Magnusson | Producer |
Skuli Fr. Malmquist | Producer |
Thor Sigurjonsson | Producer |
Þorfinnur Ómarsson | Producer |
Lene Ingemann | Producer |