Adequate Beings
Olaf de Fleur, Guðni Páll Sæmundsson
Director
Olaf de Fleur, Guðni Páll Sæmundsson
Producers
Kristín Andrea Þórðadóttir, Guðni Páll Sæmundsson, Olaf de Fleur
Cinematography
Bjarni Felix Bjarnason
8mm archive footage
Sigurbjörn Sigurðsson
Sound Engineer
Bjarni Felix Bjarnason, Guðni Páll Sæmundsson
Script
Olaf de Fleur, Guðni Páll Sæmundsson
Editing
Sigurður Eyþórsson
Sound Editor
Hjörvar Rögnvaldsson
Advisor
Vilborg Eggertsdóttir
Music
Karl Henry
Length
56
An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values. Bjarni (50) and his mother Sigrún (78), Mundi (93) and young farmer Skjöldur (35) are represented in this lyrical insight into a community that stuggles with market middlemen that press down produce prices, leaving increasingly less profit for the farmers themselves and threatening the fundamentals of their existence. Despite these adversities the community refuses to throw in the towel.