The beautiful game just got prettier.
The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism
- 5.3
- 2005
- Released
- 1h 27m
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Ottar Thor
Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir
Gugga
Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson
Magnus
Helgi Björnsson
Pétur
Þorsteinn Bachmann
Georg
Sigurður Skúlason
Eirikur
Damon Younger
Brósi
Marius Sverrisson
StarriHilmar Jónsson
Viktor Ingi
Pétur Einarsson
BjörgvinFelix Bergsson
DomariErlendur Eiríksson
Alfred
Released
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- #coming out
- #single parent
- #sports
- #parent child relationship
- #male homosexuality
- #football (soccer)
- #gay pride
- #gay theme
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Ottar Thor (Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson) is the handsome, arrogant star player of a pro soccer team, as well as main breadwinner for a family in which the overbearing males seem to spend most of their time telling long-suffering wives to shaddap. Ottar is divorced from his spouse, a former Miss Iceland (Lilja Nott as Gugga) turned full-time alcoholic. They share custody of adolescent son Magnus (Arnmu