Cold Light (2004)
What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
Top billed cast
Ingvar E. SigurðssonOlder Grímur
Unnur Ösp StefánsdóttirWoman in reception
Ruth OlafsdottirLinda- Steinunn HarðardóttirSvava
- Borghildur ThorsWoman in a window
- Áslákur IngvarssonYoung Grímur
Katla M. ÞorgeirsdóttirLára
Sara Dögg ÁsgeirsdóttirAnna- Snæfríður IngvarsdóttirGottina
Kristbjörg KjeldÁlfrún
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