Swim for your life

Synopsis

The film follows the brave attempts of two men to be the first Icelander to swim the English Channel, the Mount Everest of swimmers, their failures and eventually the success of one of them. Interwoven with the story of the amazing endurance of these two men, is the history of swimming in Iceland and in particular the long and hard struggle to re-introduce the skill after it had been almost totally lost to this seafaring nation. By the 19th century it is reckoned that in the whole of Iceland no more than 6 individuals of a population of 50.000, knew how to swim. With references to the ancient Icelandic sages, we learn through staged scenes how a local hero took on and defeated the Norwegian kin in a bout of the popular Viking sport of sea wrestling and how a mother fled after her husband was viciously killed, swimming to land with her two children.

Main Cast

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Narrator

Age : 51 | Popularity : 8%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jón Karl Helgason
Writing	Screenplay	Jón Karl Helgason
Camera	Director of Photography	Jón Karl Helgason
Editing	Editor	Jón Karl Helgason
	Color Grading	Kristín Helga Karlsdóttir
Sound	Music	Ingólfur Sv. Guðjónsson
	Sound	Jón Karl Helgason
	Sound Designer	Ingólfur Sv. Guðjónsson
Production	Producer	Jón Karl Helgason
	Production Manager	Kristín Pálsdóttir
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Margrét Einarsdóttir Freydís Jónsdóttir
Art	Production Design	Ólafur Jónasson
	Storyboard Artist	Ágúst Bjarnason
Department	Role	Name

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