Synopsis
ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE portrays the life of Paul, who suffers from schizophrenia, and the way people react to his illness. At first we see him with his family, childhood friends and the girl that he loves, and then we follow him into the psychiatric hospital. There we meet his colourful companions Öli Beatle, who believes he has written all the Beatles' songs and sent them to the group as telepathic messages; the sophisticated and erudite Viktor, who sometimes suddenly turns into Hitler; and Peter, Paul's room-mate, who has freaked out on acid and is under the impression he wrote a doctorate about Schiller at a Chinese university.Director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and Einar Mär Gudmundsson join forces again in ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE adapted from Gudmundsson's award winning novel (e.g. Nordic prize of Literature in 1995). The story is a testimony to a unique life, a homage to those who are relegated to the sidelines and condemned to observe. But ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE preach no sermons. In a subtle blend of humour and zest, the film delicately charts the uneasy border zone where the comic and tragic fuse.
