In Exile Thinking of Home

2010 55 min

Overview

The scholar Sveinn Bergsveinsson, a Communist in the 1930s, was trapped in Berlin by the outbreak of World War II and forced to work for the Nazi propaganda machine. Returning to Iceland, sick with tuberculosis, he found himself branded by both sides of the cold war political divide and barred from academic work. In desperation, he emigrated to East-Germany where he became a respected professor. He always hoped to return home but died in East-Berlin in 1988, a year before the wall came down. He left behind a wealth of documents, photographs, film and voice recordings which form the basis of this narrative.

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Documentary

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Icelandic is

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Cast

Anna K. Kristjánsdóttir

Narrator

Crew

Hjálmtýr Heiðdal

Director

Hjálmtýr Heiðdal

Screenplay

María Kristjánsdóttir

Screenplay

Anna K. Kristjánsdóttir

Screenplay

Gyða Valtýsdóttir

Music

Hjálmtýr Heiðdal

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