Olaf de Fleur
Olaf de Fleur (real name: Ólafur Jóhannesson born 1975) is an
Early life
Fleur was born in
Film career
Olaf wrote and directed his first feature film,
Olaf released his second feature, The Higher Force, in 2008. It is a comedy that was well received by the national audience. The Higher Force premiered internationally at the AFI Film Festival in November 2008 and shortly after it was included in the official selection at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and traveled to several other international film festivals. The film tells of a low-life debt collector becomes the main man in his gang through twists and turns where he makes his fellow gang members believe there is a newly returned crime lord coming to take back his territory, when in fact this mystery person is a mere lonely and deranged school teacher.
In 2011, Olaf and his producer Kristin Andrea released one documentary called
Polite People is a black comedy starring Stefán Karl Stefánsson who portrays a desperate city slicker engineer who cheats his way into a small farming community by pretending to know how to re-finance the community's slaughterhouse and save the town, not knowing that he's walking into a local turmoil of small-town politics and general misbehaving. Recently, the film received 4 nominations at the Icelandic Film Awards (The Edda) including best script.
Filmography
- Shining Star (Icelandic title: Blindsker) (Documentary, 2004)
- Africa United (Documentary, 2005)
- Act Normal (Documentary, 2006)
- The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (Feature, 2008)
- The Higher Force (Icelandic title: Stóra planið) (Feature, 2008)
- Circledrawers (Webisodes, 2009)
- Polite People (Icelandic title: Kurteist fólk) (Feature, 2011)
- Adequate Beings (Icelandic title: Land míns föður) (Documentary, 2011)
- City State (Icelandic title: Borgríki) (Feature, 2011)
- Brave Men's Blood (Feature, 2014)
- Malevolent (Netflix Feature, 2018)
References
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- ^ Cinema One Originals movies dominate 10th Cinemanila award rites. abs-cbnnews.com (2008-10-21)
- ^ "bworldonline.com, Arroyo awards winners in 10th Cinemanila festival". Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2012-02-21.