Halldór Laxness I shall or I die

A documentary film about the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness who received the Nobel Prize in 1955 for renewing the Icelandic tradition of sagaliterature and the Icelandic language The film gives a portrait of this great writer who was very much disliked as a young artist when he was describing the situation in Iceland between the first and the second world wars To date he has written over 70 books novels essays plays and memories which have been translated into more than 50 languages