Björgvin Franz Gíslason

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Birthday
Dec 09, 1977 (47 years old)

Björgvin Franz Gíslason

Known For

What The Block?
0h 44m
Movie 2023

What The Block?

Three people living on the same block try to manage their dull yet odd lives.

Blackport
0h 45m
TV Show 2021

Blackport

Follows a young married couple who see their livelihoods threatened when the government starts enforcing restrictive fishing quotas after they build a small fishing empire in a village.

Miracle Valley
1h 30m
Movie 2021

Miracle Valley

An obsessive photographer and his girlfriend are invited to a desert getaway in search of an ultra-rare bird. Fortune, fame and mending their fading relationship takes a turn at the hands of a sinister force where they face demons from both past, present and future.

Benedikt búálfur
1h 0m
Movie 2021

Benedikt búálfur

The family musical Benedikt búálfur, which Leikfélag Akureyrar has shown in Samkomuhúsið, The exhibition has enjoyed unparalleled popularity and has now been recorded by professionals for future generations to enjoy.

Flags of Our Fathers
2h 15m
Movie 2006

Flags of Our Fathers

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

A Dark Spring
0h 19m
Movie 2001

A Dark Spring

A Dark Spring portrays the last day in a young man’s life. A young man sits on a bench by the Reykjavik Lake, keeping a promise to his childhood love, a promise made fifteen years earlier. As the day grows old he still waits the long wait, in small hope of being reunited with his lost love. A young woman bearing remarkable resemblance to his young love seduces him to abandon the long wait, and his principles. By doing so, the young man pays the ultimate price.

The Icelandic Dream
1h 30m
Movie 2000

The Icelandic Dream

A business man and weekend dad is getting worn down by family trouble, business failure and the continuous loss of his favorite football team. He decides to start importing Bulgarian energy cigarettes in a last ditch attempt at success ... his best friend soon advises that suicide might be his best option.

The Icelandic Shock Station
1h 26m
Movie 1986

The Icelandic Shock Station

The Icelandic Shock-Station is a thoroughbred Icelandic comedy, where the Icelander's daily life and habits are elevated to the level of farcical confusion and where all the laws of common sense are reversed in travesty of themselves, while at the same time the opportunity is taken to satirize some of the features the scriptwriter feels are blemish on the otherwise smooth facade of the nation's character.

Biography

Björgvin was born in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1977 to parents, actors Edda Björgvinsdóttir and Gísli Rúnar Jónsson. In the late 2000s, Björgvin got the job as the children's presenter at Stundin okkar. Stundin okkar is one of the longest-running television programs in Icelandic television history. It has run at 6 PM on RÚV Sunday nights every year since Christmas 1966. In addition to hosting the show, Björgvin also published adventure books for children with themes related to the children's show. Björgvin wrote the first episodes with his mother Edda and said it was the most fun job in the world, but in 2011 he felt that it was his time to pass the torch. By that time Björgvin had won an Edda award for best children's television program.

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