Åke Sandgren

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Åke Sandgren
Born	(1955-05-13) May 13, 1955 Umeå, Sweden
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter Film producer
Years active	1983 –

Åke Sandgren (born May 13, 1955 in Umeå, Sweden) is a Swedish-Danish film director and screenwriter. He has written and directed a number of films in a variety of genres, mostly in Denmark where he now lives.

Biography

Sandgren studied Film Science and Philosophy at Stockholm University from 1976 to 1979 and then moved to Denmark where he studied film direction at the National Film School of Denmark from 1979 to 1982. After graduation he worked as a writer and director of films in both Sweden and Denmark.^[1]

He won the Golden Bear award for Best Short Film at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival with his film Cykelsymfonien (The Bicycle Symphony).^[2] His 1990 film Miraklet i Valby (Miracle at Valby) won the Grand Prize at the 2nd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival held in February 1991.^[3] He has collaborated with a number of other Danish film directors including Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Stig Håkan Larsson and Lars von Trier.

Feature filmography

Films as a director:^[4]

Cykelsymfonien 1983 - Short film
Johannes' hemmelighed 1985
Miraklet i Valby (Miracle in Valby) 1990
Kådisbellan (The Slingshot) 1993
Stora och små män (Big Men, Little Men) 1995
Dykkerne (Beyond) 2000
Et Rigtigt Menneske (Truly Human) 2001
Fluerne På Væggen (Flies on the Wall) 2005
Den Man Elsker (To Love Someone) 2007

Notes

↑ "Åke Sandgren". Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
↑ "Berlin International Film Festival 1984". IMdB. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
↑ "YUBARI INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL'91". yubarifanta.com. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
↑ "Åke Sandgren". IMdB. Retrieved 2009-09-19.

Sources

"Åke Sandgren gör vikingafilm (Ake Sandgren makes a Viking film)" (in Swedish). www.alltomfilm.se. Retrieved 2009-09-19.

External links

Åke Sandgren at the Internet Movie Database
Åke Sandgren at the Swedish Film Database

v t e Guldbagge Award for Best Director

1963–1970	Ingmar Bergman (1963/64) Arne Sucksdorff (1964/65) Alf Sjöberg (1965/66) Jan Troell (1966/67) Kjell Grede (1967/68) Bo Widerberg (1968/69) Lars Lennart Forsberg (1969/70)

1971–1990	Tage Danielsson (1971/72) Johan Bergenstråhle (1972/73) Vilgot Sjöman (1973/74) Hasse Alfredson (1974/75) Jan Halldoff (1975/76) Marianne Ahrne (1976/77) Olle Hellbom (1977/78) Stefan Jarl (1978/79) Kay Pollak (1980/81) Hasse Alfredson (1981/82) Ingmar Bergman (1982/83) Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (1984) Hasse Alfredson (1985) Suzanne Osten (1986) Kjell Grede (1987) Max von Sydow (1988) Åke Sandgren (1989) Kjell Grede (1990)

1991–2010	Anders Grönros (1991) Colin Nutley (1992) Clas Lindberg (1993) Ulf Hultberg & Åsa Faringer (1994) Bo Widerberg (1995) Kjell Sundvall (1996) Daniel Alfredson (1997) Lukas Moodysson (1998) Ella Lemhagen (1999) Roy Andersson (2000) Jan Troell (2001) Lukas Moodysson (2002) Björn Runge (2003) Tomas Alfredson (2004) Ulf Malmros (2005) Ylva Gustavsson & Catti Edfeldt (2006) Roy Andersson (2007) Tomas Alfredson (2008) Lisa Siwe (2009) Pernilla August (2010)

2011–present	Ruben Östlund (2011) Gabriela Pichler (2012) Per Fly (2013)

Authority control	VIAF: 12291210 ISNI: 0000 0000 7840 0857 SUDOC: 146738705

Persondata
Name	Sandgren, Ake
Alternative names
Short description	Swedish film director
Date of birth	1955-05-13
Place of birth	Umeå, Sweden
Date of death
Place of death

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