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Polite People(2013)
Status: Released
Date: 2013-03-31
62%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
Overview:
A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.
Languages: Icelandic.
Countries:
Iceland
ProductionCompanies:
Poppoli Pictures
Movie: Polite People
Top 10 Billed Cast
Stefán Karl Stefánsson
Lárus Skjaldarson
Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir
Margrét
Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Hrafnkell
Eggert Þorleifsson
Markell
Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
Hanna
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
Elín
Benedikt Erlingsson
Þorgeir
Gunnar Hansson
Jónatan
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
Þorsteinn
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