Tveir á báti (1992)

Directed by

Ágúst Guðmundsson

Genre

Nordic Christmas calendar

Country

Iceland

How it feels

A priest gets stranded on a boat in the ocean after running out of fuel. He meets a polar bear that can talk and act like a person.

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What happens

Tveir á báti (English: lit. Two on a Boat, play of words lost in translation) is an Icelandic television series that first aired on Icelandic public television channel Sjónvarpið in December 1992. The series is a part of Jóladagatal Sjónvarpsins, an ongoing series of televised Advent calendars. It was written by Kristín Atladóttir, an assistant producer at Sjónvarpið at the time. The show follows Séra Jón, played by Gísli Halldórsson, who gets stranded in the middle of the ocean in early December after his boat runs out of fuel, and his encounters with an anthropomorphic polar bear, played by Kjartan Bjargmundsson. Among other players is Steinn Ármann Magnússon. Tveir á báti was rerun on Sjónvarpið in December 2000. A physical advent calendar containing leads to each episode's plot was published in conjunction with the initial airing of the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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