
Directing
Benedikt Erlingsson
Directing · Born 1969-05-31 · Reykjavik, Iceland
Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May 1969; Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor and theater and film director. He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994 and has been with the National Theater of Iceland for most of his career. He has directed two feature-length films, both of which have won the Nordic Council Film Prize.
Credits · 26

Góðir Íslendingar
2026 · Guest Star

The Danish Woman
2025 · Balding Thug
FilmWhen the Light Breaks
2024
FilmTouch
2024 · Dr. Stefánsson

Blackport
2021 · Steingrímur
FilmHver drap Friðrik Dór?
2021 · Bróðir Símon
FilmWoman at War
2018 · Director
FilmÁramótaskaup: 2016
2016
FilmStefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
2016 · Halldor Laxness
FilmThe Show of Shows: 100 Years of Vaudeville, Circuses and Carnivals
2015 · Director
FilmOf Horses and Men
2013 · Director

World's End
2011 · Búi
FilmVolcano
2011 · Pálmi
FilmThe Viking Sagas
2011 · Himself
FilmPolite People
2011 · Þorgeir
FilmThe Nail
2008 · Screenplay
FilmThe Higher Force
2008 · Snati
FilmParents
2007 · Police man
FilmThe Boss of It All
2006 · Interpreter

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
2004 · Flykaptajn
FilmNjalssaga
2003
FilmThe Lost Little Caterpillar
2002 · Narrator
FilmThe Seagull's Laughter
2001 · Hilli

My Life as Bent
2001 · Haraldur, Linettes kæreste
FilmThe Dance
1998 · Hólófernes
Fóstbræður
Fóstbræður
1997