Mihkel

Story

Synopsis

Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an 
Estonian priest, who is a business partner of Igor’s in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into swallowing seventy drug capsules to take on to Iceland. He arrives in Iceland and is picked up by Igor and his two Icelandic accomplices, Jóhann and Bóbó. However, in the next two days it becomes clear that something is wrong and Mihkel cannot pass the drugs. The Icelandic criminals become very nervous, and more and more frantic activity ensues as the situation becomes more serious.

Director

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon

Writers

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon

Language

Icelandic

Country

Estonia, Iceland, Norway

Release date

11 October 2018

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Tómas Lemarquis

  Bóbó

• 

  Atli Rafn Sigurðsson

  Jóhann

• 

  Pääru Oja

  Mihkel

• 

  Kaspar Velberg

  Igor

• 

  Maiken Pius

  Veera

• Braian Kulp

  Mihkel (young)

• Rauno Joonas Küngas

  Igor (young)

• Greete-Elena Priisalu

  Veera (young)

• 

  Ingvar E. Sigurðsson

  Skúli

• 

  Zlatko Burić

  Russian Businessman

• Snæfríður Ingvarsdóttir

  Jóhann's Wife

• Hafdis Jonsdottir

  Skúli's Wife