The General Store
2013, Icelandic. Directed by Árni Gunnarsson.
The small shop Verzlun H. Júlíusson in the town of Sauðárkrókur located in North Iceland. is not just a small grocery store but so much more. It is the last one of its kind in Iceland. Everyone entering the shop travels decades back in time. The 83 years old shopkeeper Bjarni Haraldsson sells a little bit of everything but hasn’t changed much in the store that was opened by his father in 1919. Most of the furniture in use dates back half a century as well as the old scales. One can buy everything from tea pots to packet soup, working pants and hinges to batteries, screws, and lollipops. Bjarni still serves customers, day by day. He chats a little bit with them and eventually goes hunting for something they might need.
- Runtime
- 0h 53m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Icelandic
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- Released
- 28 September 2013
- Original title
- Búðin - Þar sem tíminn stendur í stað
- Written by
- Stefán Friðrik Friðriksson, Árni Gunnarsson
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The General Store isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 28 September 2013. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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The General Store (2013) was directed by Árni Gunnarsson.