Icelandic Cowboys (1984)

1 h 21 min1984

Konungur íslenskrar sveitatónlistar árið 1984 er Hallbjörn Hjartarson, en það ár skipulagði hann fyrstu og einu íslensku kúrakahátíðina, að bandarískum sið, á Skagaströnd.

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Plot

In the summer of 1984, Iceland's king of country music, Hallbjörn Hjartarson, arranged the first and only Icelandic cowboy-festival. This celebration of western culture took place in Skagaströnd, a village of 700 inhabitants in the north of Iceland, and was attended by Iceland's leading country singers. This documentary describes, in an objective fashion, the general atmosphere of the festival and gives a portrait of the star of the show, Hallbjörn Hjartarson and his views on life and stardom.