Cold Fever USA / Japan / Iceland / Denmark / Germany
1995, 87min.
Producer: Jim Stark, Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Scriptwriters: Jim Stark, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Director of Photography: Ari Kristinsson, Composer: Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Sound: Kjartan Kjartansson, Prod.Design: Árni Páll Jóhannsson, Editor: Steingrímur Karlsson
Cast: Fisher Stevens, Gísli Halldórsson, Lili Taylor, Masatoshi Nagase
Atsushi Hirata, a young Tokyo executive, is looking forward to his annual holiday – playing golf in Hawaii. His plans change suddenly when his grandfather convinces him that he should perform a memorial service for Atsushi's parents at the spot where they died: a remote river in Iceland. Cold Fever is a story of golf and ghosts; an old Citroen and exploding icebergs; funerals and boiled sheep heads; men's choirs and Icelandic country & western bands; a potent liquor called Black Death and auras; but most of all it is the story of how one young man goes on a very difficult journey to find out something important about himself.
Production Companies
Icicle
Altar Productions
Film Fonds
Icelandic Film
Hverfisgata 46, 101 Reykjavík
Iceland
Tel.: (354 551 2260)
Fax: (354 552 5154)
Email: amk@icecorp.is
Pandora Filmproduktion
Sunrise
Zentropa Entertainments
| Fridriksson, Fridrik Thor  Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (born 1953, Reykjavik)
Film director/producer Fridriksson started his filmmaking career with experimental films and documentaries in the early 1980s. He founded The Icelandic Film Corporation in 1990. It has since become Iceland's most important production company. The company produces his films and works with other Icelandic directors and producers. His international reputation led the company to build a network of internationally well-established co-production partner companies, including Lars von Trier's Zentropa and most recently, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope. He has worked with two of Iceland's most acclaimed novelists and script-writers: Einar Már Guðmundsson (Children of Nature, Angels of the Universe, Movie Days) and Einar Kárason (White Whales, Devils Island, Falcons).
Filmography
Nomina Sunt Odiosa (1975); The Saga of Burnt Njal (1980); The Blacksmith (1981)’ Rock in Rejkjavik (1982); Icelandic Cowboys (1984); The Ring Road (1985); White Whales (1987); Sky Without Limit (1989) (TV); Pretty Angels (1990); Children of Nature (1991); Movie Days (1994); Cold Fever (1995); Devil’s Island (1996); Angels of the Universe (2000); On Top Down under (2000, TV); Falcons (2002); Niceland (Population. 1.000.002) (2004); The Sunshine Boy (2009, doc.); Mamma Gógó (2010)
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