The Higher Force

A low-life debt collector becomes the main man in his gang by pretending to know a crime-lord who is in fact a lonely school teacher. David is a low-life debt collector in a gang in Reykjavik, Iceland. Upon moving into a new building, David befriends the landlord, Harald, a lonely elementary school teacher, who senses the young man's insecurity and need for guidance. When Harald finds out that David is a member of a debt-collectors gang, he starts playing himself off as a big crime lord, owning real estate all over the city and being the most dangerous man in town.

The Higher Force is one of those movies at the International Film festival Rotterdam that will make you leave the movie theatre with a big smile upon your face. An Icelandic Mafia movie that makes Gomorra look like a box full of puppies. MovieSense spoke to director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson and writer Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson. "Avoid quoting us, and don’t make any eye contact."