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Hlemmur (2002)
Reykjavik, a strange combination of village and adolescent city. Bus connections are so poor here that people only use them as a last resort: children and teenagers, the poor, the old, the sick, the strange. No wonder Hlemmur, Reykjavik's biggest bus station, is the most disdained place in Iceland's capital
It is these regular visitors to the Hlemmur bus station that the camera observes. People who have made Hlemmur their second home. They are almost all men and their common goal seems to be to find a way of passing the time. Most of them once had a family, a wife and children, but now they are alone. Something has thrown them off-track: some have been ruined by drink, others struggle with serious mental illnesses, others are on benefit or are simply old and lonely
But as one of the film's protagonists points out, no one asks whether life is fair. In winter, the homeless have little choice but to crawl under a tree and spend the night there when they are drunk, or try their luck at the "Hotel Hilton", as they call Reykjavik's biggest prison, next to Hlemmur. The life of these down-and-outs seems to be one endless cycle of scraping together enough money for the high-proof cardamom essence they drink, and the desperate attempt to remember what happened the day before. And the only thing left to many of them is the hope they won't have to survive the following day. They speak frankly and surprisingly poetically about their life on the street and what drove them there. Very gradually, the viewers develop a close rapport with these men
Occasionally, Hlemmur's frequenters believe things might be getting better. Like when the depressive Josef finds work again for the first time in ten years. The camera accompanies him to the Kleppur psychiatric clinic where for a few hours every day, he packs bag after bag into box after endless box. Or when the almost 70-year old Omar goes for detox treatment at a remote, top-security clinic on the outskirts of Reykjavik, or the alert but mentally unstable Bj rgvin Omar sits on a bench outside the bus station twitching convulsively but still clinging to the hope that he'll one day get better. Almost desperately, we hope their timid dreams of a normal life will come true, not least of all because they are so conscious of their situation. But it's clear there's no going back.
It is these regular visitors to the Hlemmur bus station that the camera observes. People who have made Hlemmur their second home. They are almost all men and their common goal seems to be to find a way of passing the time. Most of them once had a family, a wife and children, but now they are alone. Something has thrown them off-track: some have been ruined by drink, others struggle with serious mental illnesses, others are on benefit or are simply old and lonely
But as one of the film's protagonists points out, no one asks whether life is fair. In winter, the homeless have little choice but to crawl under a tree and spend the night there when they are drunk, or try their luck at the "Hotel Hilton", as they call Reykjavik's biggest prison, next to Hlemmur. The life of these down-and-outs seems to be one endless cycle of scraping together enough money for the high-proof cardamom essence they drink, and the desperate attempt to remember what happened the day before. And the only thing left to many of them is the hope they won't have to survive the following day. They speak frankly and surprisingly poetically about their life on the street and what drove them there. Very gradually, the viewers develop a close rapport with these men
Occasionally, Hlemmur's frequenters believe things might be getting better. Like when the depressive Josef finds work again for the first time in ten years. The camera accompanies him to the Kleppur psychiatric clinic where for a few hours every day, he packs bag after bag into box after endless box. Or when the almost 70-year old Omar goes for detox treatment at a remote, top-security clinic on the outskirts of Reykjavik, or the alert but mentally unstable Bj rgvin Omar sits on a bench outside the bus station twitching convulsively but still clinging to the hope that he'll one day get better. Almost desperately, we hope their timid dreams of a normal life will come true, not least of all because they are so conscious of their situation. But it's clear there's no going back.
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The person that made this video Thank you and the person that posted this my father is in this vedio he past away 2007 and I am born 2003 when I grew older and found this vedio and too be able to hear his voice is everything ❤
Merkileg mynd, átakanleg og fróðleg.
Þessi mynd er Meistaraverk. Hana þarf að þýða á ensku...
This documentary is so beautiful, full of care and respect for those who have no voice.
It shows the life they have and how they didn't choose it. Unlike what ppl think...
Wanted to show this to a friend. Please fix the subtitles!
For anyone still wondering, these subtitles are in sync. subtitleshub.net/hlemmur-english-srt-2353834/
Started learning Icelandic (again) this year. Testing it against this documentary and it feels good to make progress in understanding more and more of what us being said.
Oh boy. I watched this movie becouse of the soundtrack. But was shocked about these alcoholics- it doesn’t matter Iceland or other country, they are everywhere. Poor people. And yes subtitles doesn’t work
For anyone still wondering, these subtitles are in sync. subtitleshub.net/hlemmur-english-srt-2353834/
I was hoping to see the king róni of Reykjavík who went by the nickname "Hringur", though I think his real name was Tryggvi. I lived on Hverfisgata 49 and he was always cruising around downtown on a bicycle and chasing busses and making wild faces at people. He also hung out at Hlemmur drinking these small bottles of baking flavors which had small amounts of alcohol in them and the empties were always laying around in the bathroom there. He was even on the featured in the monthly paper Undirtónar around 2000 or 2001. He was a wild one, but I spoke with him several times and he was always nice to me. Sometimes I would see him at the bar Skipperinn, or Kaffi Austurstræti, which became the main rónabars after Keisarinn closed down. He passed away sometime a few years later, God bless his soul. Thanks for sharing this video! I miss my neighborhood in 101 Rvk.
Ég held að Hringur var orðinn edrú þegar þessi mynd er tekinn. En hann var edrú held ég bara alveg þar til hann dó.
Isso entrou na alma e me fez ver o que realmente é a vida
Thanks for the upload ❤
a bus driver.
No subtitles :(
1:18:54 did anyone see that coming?
Stórbrotin mynd
Djöfull vorkenni ég þeim.. segi ég meðan ég drekk mig í hel á þriðjudegi, vitandi að ég væri á þeirra stað ég missti vinnuna mína.
Misstirðu vinnuna þína?
I don't know what Hannes died of, but it was probably pneumonia. couldn't someone have given him a coat? the constant beatings he seemed to be taking can't have helped either. I thought Iceland would help it's alcoholics etc
julian davies we do, some people just choose to not receive the help and not everyone can be committed.
sigur ros
interesting and quite moving. only wish there were subtitles
For anyone still wondering, these subtitles are in sync. subtitleshub.net/hlemmur-english-srt-2353834/
у нас такого не покажут, цензура(((
I feel bad for them. Its so expensive to be an alcoholic in iceland :/
Icelandic sounds like a mix of danish, turkish and japanese.
Danish? DANISH!!?? BURT MEÐ ÞIG DANA DJÖFULL! (jk)
Eins og í myndinni Eftir brúðkaupið
It's basically old norwegian.
ehm.. our language is basically age old Norwegian with a spark of new age English.. has nothing to do with denmark, turky or japan lol.
@@arondj 😂😂😂 Japanese 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am swedish and I understand about 10% of what they say.
the subtitles doesn't work!! and its the only one that is complete. please fix or add subtitles.
on my list of places I still need to see :-)
Guy Lewis pússi segir sannleikann
Mann er ágætur þessi
why subbtitles doesnt work?
For anyone still wondering, these subtitles are in sync. subtitleshub.net/hlemmur-english-srt-2353834/
Meistaraverk
when i went to iceland i stayed in the hlemmur hotel which was just across the street from there
Rosalega áhrifarík mynd
This film was hard to watch. Especially seeing that one of them "Hannes" died!
I think a little bit of me died along with him.
+Randy Meins not only hannes died after this movie. ólafur kalman is also dead and björgvin ragnar (the bus driver in the very beginning) died in 2007
The director，ólafur kalman died？Where can I get the news or info？I am not English user，can you tell me about where you read those people's dead?thx...
olafur kalman is not the director, hes the guy on the far left at the 10:04 mark
Was that Hannes father that went to his grave?
23:30 - Af hverju gerðist hann ekki skáld? Þetta er með dýpri hlutum sem ég heyrt frá annari mannveru.
Hver segir að hann hafi ekki verið skáld?
árni félagi minn frá eskifirði. hann er með ljósbrúnt hár og stóran lim.
@@bjarnie88 ég hló nu að þessu
Has anyone been able to find a version of this film with English subtitles?
For anyone still wondering, these subtiltes are in sync. subtitleshub.net/hlemmur-english-srt-2353834/