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Danish Directors
This is a list of Danish film directors. It includes some foreign-born film directors who have worked in Denmark. A *Asbjørn Andersen *Nikolaj Arcel *Morten Arnfred * Natasha Arthy *Bille August *Gabriel Axel B * Erik Balling * Poul Bang * Aske Bang * Susanne Bier * Jens Bjerre * August Blom * Christoffer Boe * Christian Holten Bonke C *Henning Carlsen *Benjamin Christensen *Pernille Fischer Christensen *Erik Clausen D *Carl Theodor Dreyer E *Peter Elfelt * Jonas Elmer * Franz Ernst F *Per Fly *Peter Schønau Fog * Gert Fredholm *Grete Frische G *Emanuel Gregers * Lene Grønlykke * Sven Grønlykke *Peer Guldbrandsen H *Rumle Hammerich *Jannik Hastrup *Astrid Henning-Jensen * Bjarne Henning-Jensen *Finn Henriksen *Annelise Hovmand *Allan Hyde I * Bodil Ipsen *Jon Iversen J *Johan Jacobsen *Anders Thomas Jensen *Tomas Villum Jensen *Hella Joof K * Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt *Søren Kragh-Jacobsen *Hans Kristensen L * Birger Larsen *Viggo Larsen * Lau Lauritzen *Jørgen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Denmark
The national flag of Denmark ( da, Dannebrog, ) is red with a white Nordic cross, which means that the cross extends to the edges of the flag and the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side. A banner with a white-on-red cross is attested as having been used by the kings of Denmark since the 14th century."Dannebrog" by Hans Christian Bjerg, p.12, . An origin legend with considerable impact on Danish national historiography connects the introduction of the flag to the Battle of Lindanise of 1219. The elongated Nordic cross reflects its use as a maritime flag in the 18th century. The flag became popular as a national flag in the early 16th century. Its private use was outlawed in 1834 but again permitted by a regulation of 1854. The flag holds the world record of being the oldest continuously used national flag. Description In 1748, a regulation defined the correct lengths of the two last fields in the flag as . In May 1893 a new regulation to all chiefs of polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henning Carlsen
Henning Carlsen (4 June 1927 – 30 May 2014) was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama ''Hunger'' (''Sult'') was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy ''People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart''. Acting as his own producer since 1960, Carlsen has directed more than 25 films, 19 for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2006, he received the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival."Hæder til Henning Carlsen" '' DR'', dr.dk news, 29 August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lene Grønlykke
Lene is a feminine given name common in Denmark and Norway. People called Lene *Lene Alexandra, Norwegian singer *Lene Demsitz, Danish long jumper *Lene Elise Bergum, Norwegian actress * Lene Brøndum, Danish actress *Lene Espersen, Danish politician *Lene Hall, Barbadian model *Lene Hau, Danish physicist *Lene Kaaberbøl, Danish writer *Lene Køppen, Danish badminton player *Lene Lovich, Serbian-American singer *Lene Løseth, Norwegian alpine skier *Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer *Lene Mørk (born 1979), Danish badminton player *Lene Nystrøm Rasted, Norwegian singer with pop group Aqua *Lene Thiesen, Danish theatrist *Lene Moyell Johansen, High commissioner of the Faroe Islands Other uses *Lene Marie ''Lene Marie'' was a ketch-rigged tall ship, of overall and 200 tons displacement. She was built in Denmark in 1910 as a Baltic trader just before World War I. During the Second World War the ''Lene Marie'' sank in the Baltic Sea during a stor ..., a ketch-rigged tall ship built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Gregers
Emanuel Gregers (28 December 1881 – 22 March 1957) was a Danish actor, screenwriter and film director. Gregers made 36 films during a career which extended over four decades from the Danish golden age of silent film until 1949. Critics often dismissed his work as dependable yet uninspired, however many of his light-hearted comedies achieved great popularity in Denmark. Gregers most notable films were romantic comedies starring his wives Bodil Ipsen and Marguerite Viby. Career Emanuel Gregers was born on 28 December 1881 in Horsens, Denmark. At the age of 16 years Gregers debuted at the Horsens summer theater and performed in local theaters for the next 10 years. Around 1909, he moved to Copenhagen and performed in the larger theaters including Norrebros Teater and the Betty Nansen Teatret. Although he quickly shifted to working in film in 1912, Gregers maintained a lifelong attachment to stagework: he owned the Casino theater in Copenhagen and managed it from 1921 to 1931, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grete Frische
Grete Frische (15 June 1911 – 17 August 1962) was a Danish actress, screenwriter and director. The daughter of a playwright, Frische is best known for her screenplays, especially the war drama '' Støt står den danske sømand'' (English: '' The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman'') which received the 1949 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. During a short career of less than 24 years, Frische wrote 22 produced screenplays including five of the popular ''Far til Fire'' (English: ''Father of Four'') family comedies and two adaptations of Morten Korch novels. Early life Frische was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of the actor and playwright Axel Frische and Christine Jørgine Christensen. In accordance with her father's wishes, Frische began her career by studying English and History at Bedford, England rather than attending theater school. While studying in England, she met a young Burmese student, whom she married, and moved to Mandalay and Rangoon. Before the out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Fredholm
Gert Fredholm (born 18 November 1941) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1967. His 1971 film '' Den forsvundne fuldmægtig'' was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. Filmography * '' Tag en rask beslutning'' (1967) * ''Astrid Henning-Jensen Astrid Henning-Jensen (born Astrid Smahl; 10 December 1914 – 5 January 2002) was a Danes, Danish film director, actress, editor and screenwriter. Early life Henning-Jensen was born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg in 1914, to pare ...'' (1967) * '' Den forsvundne fuldmægtig'' (1971) * '' Terror'' (1977) * '' Lille Virgil og Orla Frøsnapper'' (1980) * '' At klappe med een hånd'' (2001) * '' Dommeren'' (2005) * '' En enkelt til Korsør'' (2008) * '' Orla Frøsnapper'' (2011) References External links * 1941 births Living people Danish film directors Danish male screenwriters People from Næstved {{Denmark-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Schønau Fog
Peter Schønau Fog (born 20 April 1971) is a Danish film director. Fog's debut feature film, '' Kunsten at græde i kor'' (English: ''The Art of Crying''), based on Erling Jepsen's novel of the same name, premiered 27 April 2007 and received critical acclaim. For the film, he received the Nordic Council Film Prize for Best Film of 2007 as well as the 2007 Robert Award for Best Danish Film and 2008 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Fog studied at the University of Copenhagen and the Prague Film School before graduating in 1999 from the National Film School of Denmark. His graduation project, the short film ''Lille Mænsk'' (English: ''Little Man'') was shortlisted for Best Foreign Film at the Student Academy Awards. In 2010, Fog accepted a four-year contract as consultant and project director at the Danish Film Institute which prevented him from pursuing personal film projects. Fog wrote and directed the 2017 film ''Du forsvinder'' (English: ''You Disappear'') based upon Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Fly
Per Fly Plejdrup (born 14 January 1960) is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He has made many films and television shows broadcast on Danish television. Per Fly's awards includes the Crown Prince Couple's Culture Prize in 2005. Biography Fly graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1993. He debuted in 2000 with the feature film ''Bænken'' (''The Bench''), which told the story of Kaj, a man whose life has led him into serious alcoholism. This film was the first part of what would become the Denmark trilogy, which portrayed situations and characters from the lower, upper and middle classes in Denmark, in that order. The stop-motion animation film '' Prop og Berta ''(''Prop and Berta'', 2001) followed ''Bænken'', but was not part of the trilogy. The trilogy continued with '' Arven'' (''The Inheritance'', 2003) depicting the upper class, and the middle class in ''Drabet ''(''Manslaughter'', 2005). In 2007 he shot a series entitled '' Forest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Ernst
Franz Ernst (born 30 July 1938) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1965. His 1970 film '' Ang.: Lone'' was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival The 21st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 6 July 1971. The ''Young Filmmakers Forum'' (in 1987 renamed ''International Forum for New Cinema'') section was introduced at the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded ... where it won a Special Recognition award. Selected filmography * '' Ang.: Lone'' (1970) * '' The Double Man'' (1976) References External links * 1938 births Living people Danish film directors Danish male screenwriters {{Denmark-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Elmer (director)
Jonas Elmer (born 14 March 1966) is a Danish film director, screenwriter and previously an actor. In 1988 he was a production assistant at the set of ''Family Business'', starring Sean Connery. Elmer graduated in direction at the National Film School of Denmark in 1995. His debut as a director came with the Danish film '' Let's Get Lost'' which won him a Robert and Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Since then, he has directed the Danish feature films ''Monas verden'' and '' Nynne''. He has also directed 21 episodes of the Danish sit-com '' Langt fra Las Vegas''. He directed his first American feature film in 2008, ''New in Town'', starring Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick, Jr, which was released in January 2009. In 2013 he directed the film ''In Real Life'', a production about human desire to have their unmet needs satisfied, and shows their passions, desperation and delusion. Filmography I Credited as associate producer. Awards and nominations * 1995 Internationales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Elfelt
Peter Elfelt (1 January 1866 – 18 February 1931) was a Denmark, Danish photographer and film director known as the first movie pioneer in Denmark when he began making documentary films in 1897. Biography Peter Elfelt was born Peter Lars Petersen in Denmark on 1 January 1866. (He changed his name to Elfelt when he began making films.) He apprenticed in photography in Hillerød in 1893 with the photographer Carl Rathsack. He also studied with the camera builder Jens Poul Andersen. In 1893, Elfelt opened his own atelier in Copenhagen with his two brothers as his assistants. As his photographic skills became appreciated, his business flourished and by 1901 Elfelt was named "Kongelige Hoffotograf" (Royal Court Photographer). During a trip to Paris in 1896, Elfelt obtained a set of detailed ''Cinematographe'' plans from the French inventor Jules Carpentier. He had a film camera constructed by Jens Poul Andersen. In the beginning of 1897, he shot the first Danish film – a one-minu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer (; 3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his movies are noted for their emotional austerity and slow, stately pacing, frequent themes of social intolerance, the inseparability of fate and death, and the power of evil in earthly life. His 1928 movie ''The Passion of Joan of Arc'' is considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time, renowned for its cinematography and use of close-ups. It frequently appears on Sight & Sound's lists of the greatest films ever made, and in 2012's poll it was voted the 9th-best film ever made by film critics and 37th by film directors. His other well-known films include ''Michael'' (1924), ''Vampyr'' (1932), ''Day of Wrath'' (1943), ''Ordet'' (''The Word'') (1955), and '' Gertrud'' (1964). Life Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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