The Day Iceland Stood Still | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

When 90% of Iceland’s women walked off the job and out of their homes one morning in 1975, they brought their country  | dG1fRTNCTHd0ZDFaMGs

Transcript

00:00Almost all the women in Iceland are on strike today.

00:04It's National Women's Day there, and the women are refusing to work in even their own homes.

00:09If women don't work, everything collapses.

00:12We are going to show them that we can stop this society.

00:17The man thought it was ridiculous.

00:19Oh, you are so silly.

00:22Goodbye.

00:24The beds were not made, dishes not washed, the telephone system went dead, theaters did

00:29not open, most of the schools were closed.

00:31Well, it didn't come to blows, but we got very harsh words, mostly from men.

00:37They were thought to be destroying the role of the housewife and putting society on its head.

00:45It's like a revolution, you know.

00:47I saw the flags coming up.

00:51And it was beautiful.

00:55The men, they called it the Long Friday.