" ... a bright, tangy, highly engaging account of the old world trying to get to grips with the new."

"Fridriksson's film has enough colorful characters to justify the sense of foreboding the area provoked in the good people of Reykjavik."

From the Director of "COLD FEVER" comes a bittersweet tale of Iceland in the fifties.

The Rock and Roll years visit Iceland in this raucous saga that tells of the outcast people living in barracks left behind by American forces after World War II. Specifically, it's about Baddi and Danni, two children brought up by their grandparents. When their flirty mother marries an American pilot and moves to Kansas Baddi visits her and returns to Devils Island as an Elvis look alike with a new American accent and a big car. He becomes a local hero, but his stardom soon fades, his mother divorces and this quirky family sets out on another adventure.

The spectacular Icelandic sunsets are punctuated here by spectacular after-dark boozing in this depiction of an unfamiliar world at the crossroads of tradition and youth culture. Fridriksson says, "These outsiders, that lived in a Reykjavik ghetto in the Fifties reminded me of my favorite film - 'Rocco and His Brothers.' With this film I hope to reveal a hidden world that few people knew existed in Iceland."

DEVIL'S ISLAND (Iceland/1997/35mm/103min) was directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, written by Einar Karason and produced by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Peter Rommel, Egil Odegaard and Peter Aalbaek Jenson.