Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson was born on 22 November 1963 in Reykjavik, in the Höfuðborgarsvæðið region. He graduated from the Icelandic Theatre Academy in 1990. A year later, he was hired by the National Theatre, where he appeared in several plays. He has subsequently appeared extensively on television and stage, as well as in Icelandic cinema. He is also a film producer.
He received the Louis Roederer Foundation Revelation Award at the 58th Critics’ Week in Cannes for his role in Un jour si blanc, directed by Hlynur Pálmason and presented as a world premiere at Critics’ Week.
Hlynur Pálmason’s second feature portrays a lonely man who feels abandoned and is filled with grief, doubt and anger, brilliantly played by Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson. He suspects a local man of having had an affair with his wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually, his obsession with uncovering the truth builds up and inevitably begins to endanger him and those close to him. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.
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