Jörn Donner

Jörn Johan Donner (born 5 February 1933 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician, member of the Donner family and founder of Finnish Film Archive. He has been associated with several different political parties, and has at different times been a member both of the Finnish parliament and the European Parliament. As of 2007^[update] he was again a member of the Finnish parliament for a short while, after Eva Biaudet resigned to take a position at the OSCE. Jörn Donner has also for long periods lived and worked in Sweden, and has, among other things, served as director of the Swedish Film Institute. His novel Far och son (Father and Son) won him the Finlandia Prize in 1985. In 1979, he was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1]

He is the son of the linguist Kai Donner.

Donner has suffered from prostate and lung cancers.^[2]

Film career

Internationally Jörn Donner is best known as the producer of Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece Fanny and Alexander. In 1981 the movie won a total of four Academy Awards including the award for best foreign language film [1]

Filmography

• Kuulustelu (2009)
• Presidentti (2000)
• Ingmar Bergman: Om liv och arbete (1998)
• Brev från Sverige (1988)
• Dirty Story (1984)
• Yhdeksän tapaa lähestyä Helsinkiä (1982)
• Bergman File, The (1978)
• Män kan inte våldtas (1978)
• Ingmar Bergmanin maailma (1978)
• Baksmälla (1973)
• Hellyys (1972)
• Perkele! Kuvia Suomesta (1971)
• Naisenkuvia (1970)
• Anna (1970)
• 69 – Sixtynine (1969)
• Mustaa valkoisella, (Black on White) (1968)
• Stimulantia (1967)
• Tvärbalk (1967)
• Här börjar äventyret, (Adventure Starts Here) (1965)
• Täällä alkaa seikkailu (1965)
• Att älska, (To Love)(1964)
• Söndag i september, En, (A Sunday in September) (1963)

See also

• Donner family

References

External links

• Biography
• Jörn Donner at the Internet Movie Database