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A Little Trip to Heaven

Baltasar Kormákur

Iceland2005 87smin 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Baltasar Kormkur made his major studio debut with this thriller. Forest Whitaker takes a role of an investigator that tracks down insurance frauds. A swindler who purchased life insurance policies worth millions of dollars under his name is mysteriously killed and his sister and her husband who fight over the insurance payment end up confronting the investigator. Audience can watch the beautiful journey of a humanist investigator on his journey for the true path to Heaven.

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Baltasar Kormákur

Baltasar Kormákur was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1966 into an artistic family, his father a Catalan painter/artist and his Icelandic mother a sculptor . He graduated as an actor from Iceland’s National Academy of Fine Arts in 1990 and was signed on by the National Theatre of Iceland right after his graduation where he worked as one of the leading young performing artists until 1997. The last two years of his assignment he also directed some ambitious productions after having produced and directed immensely popular, independent stage productions alongside his work at the theatre.