God bless Iceland (Guð blessi Ísland) - Trailer with English subtitles

The film "God bless Iceland" (IS. "Guð blessi Ísland") is a documentary about the financial crisis in Iceland. Its premiere will be on the 6th of October 2009, exactly a year after the Prime Minister of Iceland gave a dramatic speech on Icelandic television, informing the nation about the situation.

The film will be shown in Germany and all the Nordic countries.

This is the trailer with "amateur subtitles".

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[eimmitt]

it is unrealistic to expect a nation of 300 000 innocent people to pay sky high numbers for something that they didin't even do. People are loosing their homes, jobs and are not being able to buy food for their children. And now they are raising taxes, and the price of everything is going up. People need to be more understanding about what's going on in Iceland and what the president did was just following democracy laws which is allowing the people to make the decisions.

Áfram Ísland!!

[Hoddmimisholt]

@hermankatnip ...The Icelandic people don't owe the UK and NL shit. This was a private bank, British and Dutch depositors chose voluntarily to invest money in this bank, and did so at their own risk.

[Juventinoxsempre95]

background song name?

[Illvaettr]

been erased by this word, "democracy".

[Illvaettr]

@Giacomo11258 That, which you say, I haven't opposed to. Any government will keep doing what governments always have done; protect the interests of the priviliged classes (everything from a communist party elite to scratching the back of managing directors and bankers). I agree that new systems are necessary, and that these should come from the roots. It would save much time and energy to define and revaluate "democracy". I'm thinking about the Arab revolutions and their potentials that have

[Giacomo11258]

knowing that they can revoke the power that they delegate or change the rules by which power is delegated to a government. There is a mountainous country at the heart of Europe that works like that, and eurocrats in Brussels and elsewhere are trying hard to destroy its reputation, its currency and its economy. Thus far they have failed miserably.

[Giacomo11258]

I agree with you except that I find it important that all the people in Europe start building their reaction to this mounstruosity on a strong foundation, on a common tenet: a country, any country belongs to its people, not to its government, not to its oligarchs. If we topple our regimes relying on a new fearless leader, we are bound to fail again. It's up to the people of Europe to build new systems in which the citizens delegate to their politicians the lesser share of their sovereignty.

[Illvaettr]

But that is, perhaps, a different discussion. What we can see in Iceland is the work of their own political and financial elite.

[Illvaettr]

Hopefully, they will not succeed, and this empire will fall apart, just like Rome fell apart. The events like those in Greece are healthy reactions to the sickness of capitalism. Now that the fear of Italy's economy is growing stronger within the walls of power, I hope the Italians will put down their feet like the Greeks.

[Illvaettr]

@Giacomo11258 Oligarchs exploiting their respective countries' people is something that you can see in every country; the capitalists are the same everywhere. The EU is a neo-liberal experiment, and it's arranged by the biggest economies of Europe, which it also favours the most (note: not the people). The "PIGS" countries have been heavily exploited by France and Germany in form of usury loans; THAT is why they are so eager so "save" "Greece's economy" (in fact, their own economies).

[Giacomo11258]

@Illvaettr it's not "the big countries", I think. It's the oligarchies. The same financial and political oligarchies that are sucking the marrow out of the bones of their fellow citizens. Minimize te government. Power to the citizens.

[Giacomo11258]

One lesson from Iceland: the people are sovereign. Not the government, not the banks, not to the corporations, not to the stock market. A country belongs to its people. Let this seed spread into the rest of Europe. Let the REAL people rule. Those who make a living working honestly and supporting their families. If we don't turn against the power hungry, the unscrupled and the filthy rich, we're teaching our children a terrible lesson: be an arrogant bastard if you want to have a future.