Olaf de Fleur (also known as Johannesson) who grew up in a farming community on the west-coast of Iceland has gone back to his roots for his third feature film. The main subject matter is small town politics and cheating on each other. "The film is about a desperate city slicker engineer who cheats his way into a small farming community on the West-coast of Iceland, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughter house, not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving," explains the filmmaker. "Small town politics is just a reflective pattern seen equally in the US or Indonesia. I thought it would be interesting to do a film on this subject in a safe Nordic country, where everybody is stabbing each other in the back with a pen...so to speak!"
The all-Icelandic cast includes Stefan Karl Stefansson (Lazytown) in his first leading role in a film, legendary actor Eggert Thorleifsson, Ragnhildur Steinunn (Astropia), Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir (Jar City), and Benedikt Erlingsson (The Boss of it All). The €700,000 film is produced by de Fleur, Johann G. Johannsson, Gudni Pall Saemundsson and Kristin Andrea Thordardottir for the director's own company Poppoli Pictures, with Ciccala Filmworks in the US and Angel Film in Germany. Delivery date is set for the summer 2010.