Mikael Torfason
Best-selling author of eight books, ten plays, and a Netflix Series.
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Film & TV
MADE IN ICELAND
Original title: Gemsar
Written and directed by Mikael Torfason
“A handful of Reykjavik youths party hard and generally seek the meaning of life in the chaotic "Gemsar", a familiar portrait of rootless young people but with an interesting twist. Blurring the the line between fiction and reality, debuting writer-director Mikael Torfason also lets his actors speak about their real-life experiences and dreams for the future. Technically rogh pic (fitting its subject matter) could find festival berths.”
The Variety
NOMINATIONS:
Best Picture & Best Cinematography at The Gothenburg Film Festival
Best Picture at The Digital Film Festival in Berlin
Best Picture at The International Film Festival in Sao Paulo
THE VALHALLA MURDERS
A Netflix original series written by Mikael Torfason, Margret Ornolfsdottir, Otto Geir Borg and Ottar M. Nordjord.
Police profiler Arnar teams up with detective Kata to solve Iceland's first serial killer case. The murders don't seem to have much in common until the investigative duo connect them to an abandoned boys' home named Valhalla, where horrendous crimse occurred 35 years earlier.
FALSKUR FUGL
Based on Torfason's first novel, Falskur Fugl (Ferox in English), and directed by Thor Omar Jonsson. The film received 5 nomination at the Edda Film Awards in Iceland.
AGNES JOY
Based on Torfason's original script, re-written Gagga Jonsdottir, Johanna Saemundsdottir and Silja Hauksdottir (director). Won best film at the Icelandic Edda Awards.
REPRESENTATION
RTA - Revolutionary Talent Agency
Solmsstrasse 52 - 10961 Berlin / Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 30 - 440 17 341
Fax +49 (0) 30 - 440 17 930
Theatre
Nominated for BEST PLAY at the Icelandic Grima Theatre Awards.
PINOT NOIR
THE PERFECT MAN
Monologues by Mikael Torfason
Torfason's latest monologue is Pinot Noir, written for Ganymed in the Kunsthistorische Museum In Vienna.
The Perfect Man was a one man show performed in the City Theatre in Reykjavik.
"Torfason's text is solid and to the point... no clichés here... and sometimes way to convincing..."
DV Newspaper
"Hits straight home!"
Morgunbladid Newspaper
HARMSAGA
HARM / SAGA
written by Mikael Torfason
“Mikael Torfason's two-character drama, based on an actual murder case, makes August Strindberg's gruelling "Dance of Death" seem polite. It's like an indie film update of Strindberg, with the twisted psychological games driven to explosive heights by explicit footage of an affair (hers) and animalistic roars and self-flagellation (his).”
The Washington Post
THE ODYSSEY
DIE EDDA
Mikael Torfason successful collaboration with director Thorleifur Orn Arnarsson has given birth to seven plays. They've received numerous prizes for their work in theatres in Iceland, Germany, Austria and Norway.
NJÁLA
GOD BLESS ICELAND
ENEMY OF THE DUCK
MAZE OF KNOWLEDGE
LET'S TALK ABOUT FAUST
THE ODYSSEY
REPRESENTATION
Schaefersphilippen
Meister-Gerhard-Strasse 11 / 50674 Köln / Germany
About Mikael Torfason
Mikael Torfason is an Icelandic native who has written eight novels, ten plays, a Netflix original and three feature films. His books have been published around the world. He wrote and directed Made in Iceland, a feature film that travelled the world and was nominated to numerous prizes. Recently Torfason finished writing Valhalla Murders that airs on Netflix. In Iceland he has made radio documentaries, hosted his own TV Show, and was Editor-in-Chief of two of the three big newspapers. Today he lives in Vienna, and works as a writer-director. His plays have been performed in theatres across the contingent. Torfason's latests books are memoirs about his life in Iceland, and bestsellers in Iceland. They are available on Amazon in both German and English.
Get in Touch
Sebastian DiBona
Torfason's Film & TV Agent
Marc Schafers & Tobias Philippen
Torfason's Theatre Agents
RTA - Revolutionary Talent Agency
Solmsstrasse 52 - 10961 Berlin Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 30 - 440 17 341
Fax +49 (0) 30 - 440 17 930
Schaefersphilippen
Meister-Gerhard-Strasse 11 50674 Köln / Germany
Tel. +49 (02 21) 6 77 72 17-0
Fax +49 (02 21) 6 77 72 17-9