Polite People(Kurteist fólk)
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Iceland · 2013
1h 30m
Director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
Starring Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Eggert Þorleifsson
Genre Comedy, Drama
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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.
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