I'm a simple man - My name is Gleb

I'm a simple man - My name is Gleb

2020 · 51 min · Documentary

Gleb is a Russian man who writes colourful letters to Icelandic news media in hopes of getting a job and a wife there. Ten years later, artist Kristján Guðmundsson comes across the letters and finds in them a correspondence with his outlook on life, and that of his comrades in the society of Hreiðar Heimski, and decides to invite Gleb to Iceland.

Directed by Ingvar Þórisson

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