Baltasar Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur

1966-02-27 Reykjavik, Iceland 47 Credits

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 ...

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Touch

Touch

2024

Screenplay, Director, Producer

7.5
Writing Directing Producing

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

Beast

2022

Director, Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

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

Against the Ice

2022

Producer

6.8
Producing

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

Adrift

Adrift

2018

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

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

Vultures

2018

Producer

5.8
Producing

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

Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel

2017

as Self

Acting
The Oath

The Oath

2016

as Finnur

6.0
Acting

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

The Oath

The Oath

2016

Writer, Director, Producer

6.0
Writing Directing Producing

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

Everest

Everest

2015

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

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

Virgin Mountain

2015

Producer

7.2
Producing

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

2 Guns

2 Guns

2013

Director

6.5
Directing

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

The Deep

2012

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.3
Directing Writing Producing

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

Contraband

2012

Director, Producer

6.3
Directing Producing

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

Summerland

2010

Producer

5.7
Producing

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

Inhale

2010

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Reykjavik-Rotterdam

Reykjavik-Rotterdam

2008

as Kristófer

6.3
Acting

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

Reykjavik-Rotterdam

2008

Producer

6.3
Producing

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

White Night Wedding

2008

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.8
Directing Writing Producing

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

Jar City

2006

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.0
Directing Writing Producing

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

Directing
A Little Trip to Heaven

A Little Trip to Heaven

2005

Director, Producer, Screenplay

5.4
Directing Producing Writing

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

Stormy Weather

2003

as Einar

5.2
Acting

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

Stormy Weather

2003

Producer

5.2
Producing

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

Investigation Into the Invisible World

2002

6.0
Acting

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

The Sea

2002

Director, Writer, Producer

6.4
Directing Writing Producing

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

No Such Thing

2002

as Dr. Artaud

5.9
Acting

A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.

Me and Morrison

Me and Morrison

2001

as Askildsen

4.3
Acting

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

Regína

2001

as Ívar

6.0
Acting

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

101 Reykjavik

2000

as Þröstur

6.2
Acting

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

101 Reykjavik

2000

Screenplay, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

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

Angels of the Universe

2000

as Óli

7.0
Acting

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

The Split

1999

as Friðrik

4.0
Acting

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

Pop in Reykjavik

1998

Producer

Producing

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

Go LazyTown

1996

Director, Writers' Assistant

8.5
Directing Writing

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

Devil's Island

1996

as Baddi

6.4
Acting

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

Dream Hunters

1996

as Gunnar

2.5
Acting

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

Acting

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

Agnes

1995

as Natan

3.5
Acting

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

A Fairy Tale of Our Time

1992

Acting

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

Wallpaper: An Erotic Love Story

1992

4.8
Acting

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

Broken Glass

1988

4.5
Acting

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

Writing Directing

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

Producing

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

Directing

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

Producing Directing

“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

Producing Directing

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

Directing

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...