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Blackport
Sign in to saveBlackport () is an Icelandic television drama miniseries, written by Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Mikael Torfason and produced by Vesturport in association with RÚV. The first episode of the eight part series premiered on the RÚV (TV channel) on 26 December 2021.
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★ 5.9Follows a young married couple who see their livelihoods threatened when the government starts enforcing restrictive fishing quotas after they build a small fishing empire in a village.
- Aired
- 2021–2022
- Seasons
- 1 · 8 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Mikael Torfason
- Network
- RÚV
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- television series
- Country of origin
- Iceland
- Original language
- Icelandic
- Director
- Gísli Örn Garðarsson
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- number of seasons
- 1
- number of episodes
- 8
- original broadcaster
- RÚV
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Blackport () is an Icelandic television drama miniseries, written by Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson and Mikael Torfason and produced by Vesturport in association with RÚV. The first episode of the eight part series premiered on the RÚV (TV channel) on 26 December 2021.
==Synopsis== The series takes place from 1983 to 1991 and follows a married couple, Harpa and Grimur, who buy an old trawler with their childhood friends and build a small fishing empire in a village in the Westfjords of Iceland. All goes well until the Icelandic government starts enforcing new restrictive fishing quotas which turn their lives upside down and result in a feud of jealousy, greed and betrayal.
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