Black's Game - Cold Land

Movie
German title	Black's Game - Cold Land
Original title	Svartur á leik
Country of production	Iceland
original language	Icelandic
Publishing year	2012
length	104 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Óskar Þór Axelsson
script	Óskar Þór Axelsson, ; Stefán Máni
production	Nicolas Winding Refn , ; Chris Briggs , ; Heiðar Már Guðjónsson
music	Frank Hall
camera	Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
cut	Kristján Loðmfjörð
occupation
	Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson : Stebbi; Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson : Tóti; Damon Younger : Bruno; María Birta : Dagný; Vignir Rafn Valþórsson : Robbi Rotta; Egill Einarsson : Sævar K; Steinn Ármann Magnússon : Einar Skakki; Andri Már Birgisson : Rósi; Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson : Óskar tattoo; Sveinn Geirsson Viktor; Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson : Jói Faró; Rúnar Freyr Gíslason : Árni Jónsson; Ísak Hinriksson : Nóri litli;
synchronization

Black's Game - Kaltes Land (original title Svartur á leik ) is an Icelandic feature film by the director Óskar Þór Axelsson from 2012 . It is the film adaptation of the novel Svartur á leik by the writer Stefán Máni .

action

When Stebbi threatens to be charged with assault after a fight, his old childhood friend Tóti promises to find him a good lawyer. In return, Stebbi has to get drugs hidden there from an apartment that has been sealed by the police. After he succeeds, he is accepted by Tóti in his gangster organization and helps with drug trafficking.

One day the psychopathic Bruno, who had been abroad for some time, comes back to Iceland. He wants to set up a nationwide network to smuggle and sell drugs into the country and forces Stebbi and Tóti to work for him. Over time, Bruno takes over the entire drug trade and eliminates all competitors.

During a courier ride, Stebbi is approached by the police at a gas station, who tells him that they are on the trail of the drug ring and that they have evidence of Stebbi involvement in a bank robbery . Since the police are primarily interested in Bruno as the head of the gang, whom they also suspect of having murdered Robbi, who disappeared without a trace, they offer Stebbi mitigation if he betrays Bruno.

A few days later, at a party, Bruno asked Stebbi if he had a passport . The two drive to a hiding place, where Bruno gives Stebbi a bag full of money, which he is supposed to bring to Hamburg the next day . He also says that he no longer trusts Tóti because he suspects him to have embezzled cocaine , which Stebbi actually hid after talking to the police. He shows Stebbi a box in which he keeps Robbi's cut hand so that he knows how Bruno deals with traitors.

Back at the party, Stebbi tries to warn Tóti, but he fails. Stebbi has to leave the party again. When he returns, he sees the police storm the building. On the roof of the house he notices Tóti and Bruno arguing and fighting. Bruno hits Tóti with a pole so that he falls from the roof and dies. Stebbi then packs the cocaine with the money in the bag he sends his mother to keep for him, and leaves the country.

Five years later, Stebbi returns to Iceland to attend the funeral of his late mother. Then he drives to her house, where he finds the bag in his teenage room. He opens the cocaine packet with scissors and sniffs some of it. Suddenly Bruno stands in the room with a knife in his hand and threatens Stebbi to kill him as a traitor.

In the last scene, Stebbi puts Bruno's hand in the box at Robbi's hand.

background

Black's Game - Kaltes Land premiered on February 1st, 2012 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam . In Iceland, the film came in the 12 March 2012 cinemas . In Germany it was released on DVD on November 23, 2012 .

synchronization

Black's Game - Kaltes Land was dubbed by Berlin TV + Synchron .

actor	German speaker	role
Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson	Nicolas Boell	Stebbi
Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson	Marcus Off	Toti
Damon Younger	Peter Flechtner	Bruno
Vignir Rafn Valþórsson	Tim Sander	Robbi Rotta
Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson	Reinhard Scheunemann	Óskar tattoo