Polite People

Polite People

2011 · 90 min · ★ 6.2 · Comedy, Drama

A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.

Directed by Olaf de Fleur Johannesson · Written by Hrafnkell Stefánsson

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