Biography
Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson is an Icelandic actor, theatre and film director, and producer. He is best known for directing the films 101 Reykjavík, The Sea, A Little Trip to Heaven, Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest, Touch, and the TV series Katla. Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson was born in Reykjavík, Iceland. His father is the Catalan painter Baltasar Samper. In 1999, Baltasar founded the film production company Blueeyes with his wife Lilja Pálmadóttir. Agnes Johansen is another producer at the ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Touch
2024
Screenplay, Director, Producer
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what r...

Beast
2022
Director, Producer
A recently widowed man and his two teenage daughters travel to a game reserve in South Africa. However, their journey of healing soon turns into a fig...

Against the Ice
2022
Producer
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.

Adrift
2018
Director, Producer
Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history...

Vultures
2018
Producer
In an attempt to fix his financial problems, Erik recruits his brother, Atli, to help him import a shipment of cocaine into Iceland. Erik thinks he's...

Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
2017
as Self

The Oath
2016
as Finnur
When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.

The Oath
2016
Writer, Director, Producer
When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.

Everest
2015
Director, Producer
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-i...

Virgin Mountain
2015
Producer
Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.

2 Guns
2013
Director
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- ...

The Deep
2012
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the s...

Contraband
2012
Director, Producer
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But t...

Summerland
2010
Producer
An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions. Their house is built around an elf st...

Inhale
2010
Director
A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.

Reykjavik-Rotterdam
2008
as Kristófer
A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo bet...

Reykjavik-Rotterdam
2008
Producer
A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo bet...

White Night Wedding
2008
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. Fi...

Jar City
2006
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
Simply - A True Story
2006
Director

A Little Trip to Heaven
2005
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horr...

Stormy Weather
2003
as Einar
The psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Cora becomes ...

Stormy Weather
2003
Producer
The psychiatry department of a young doctor Cora has just admitted a young lady who refuses to speak and whose identity remains unknown. Cora becomes ...

Investigation Into the Invisible World
2002
A feature length documentary shot in Iceland on mediums and the relationship between humans and invisible beings such as elves ghosts, angels, water m...

The Sea
2002
Director, Writer, Producer
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. Bu...

No Such Thing
2002
as Dr. Artaud
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

Me and Morrison
2001
as Askildsen
A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly thro...

Regína
2001
as Ívar
Regína is 10 years old. Her mother, Margrét, works at a home for the elderly and her father is dead. The story begins one sunny summer morning when ki...

101 Reykjavik
2000
as Þröstur
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment check...

101 Reykjavik
2000
Screenplay, Director
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment check...

Angels of the Universe
2000
as Óli
The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he...

The Split
1999
as Friðrik
Sol Jensen, a young Icelandic woman, and Halil Atesh, originally from the countryside in Turkey, meet in Reykjavik and fall passionately in love. Ten ...

Pop in Reykjavik
1998
Producer
Popp í Reykjavík (Pop in Reykjavik) is a film about the vibrant Icelandic music culture of the late '90s. It was released in 1998 and features intervi...

Go LazyTown
1996
Director, Writers' Assistant
Latibær is full of colourful characters who have a very negative attitude towards physical activity, healthy food and so on. They prefer to stuff them...

Devil's Island
1996
as Baddi
Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US mili...

Dream Hunters
1996
as Gunnar
The smell of leather, whiskey and cigars: Two young girlfriends fall in love with the same man, an adventurous young businessman. Missing, forged docu...
Draumur um draum
1996
Vala, a young filmmaker, is working on a documentary about the writer Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir. Vala is editing the film, looking into Ragnheiður's books...

Agnes
1995
as Natan
In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds. Agnes is a servant i...

A Fairy Tale of Our Time
1992
A story in the form of a fairy tale, that tells of the time the Princess calls upon her hero to slay the modern day dragon. The film is unusual in the...

Wallpaper: An Erotic Love Story
1992
Two young friends, Lass and Sveppi, run a nightclub in downtown Reykjavik. They hire a beautiful young singer, Sól, who has just moved from the countr...

Broken Glass
1988
Maria is somewhat of a rebel and problem child. Her mother died and her father remarried some awful lady, and Maria isn't happy at all. She takes a dr...
On the Job
N/A
Writer, Director
Politicians and high-ranking military officials hire prison inmates as hitmen and offer them temporary releases in order to do the job.
Jar City
N/A
Producer
A mystery set in a small Louisiana town, where a police detective investigating a murder uncovers a trail of secrets and corruption.
Cascade
N/A
Director
Based on the 2003 Documentary, "The Day Britain Stopped" about a massive traffic standstill that stranded hundreds of thousands of motorists in Englan...
I Am Victor
N/A
Producer, Director
“I Am Victor” follows a skilled but morally corrupt and narcissistic divorce settlement lawyer who finds himself framed for a series of brutal murders...
Apex
N/A
Producer, Director
A rock climber finds herself being hunted in the wild. Described as Free Solo meets Silence of the Lambs.
The Good Spy
N/A
Director
American CIA operative Robert Ames attempts to forge a healthy relationship between the U.S. and nations in the Middle East, but tragedy strikes in 19...