Harry Leo Schein (13 October 1924 – 11 February 2006) was an
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chemical engineer, writer and a major figure in
Swedish culture
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. Born in
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, Schein was a founder of the
Swedish Film Institute
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and acted as its first Managing Director from 1963 to 1978.
He is best known for his role in pushing through the film reform of 1963, which ensured that 10 percent of the money from cinema ticket sales was handed to a central film organization. This system guaranteed continuous production of Swedish films for several decades. After the film reform, there was a golden age for Swedish film with
Ingmar Bergman
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,
Bo Widerberg
Bo Gunnar Widerberg (; 8 June 1930 – 1 May 1997) was a Sweden, Swedish film director, screenwriter, writer, film editing, editor and actor.
Biography Early life
Widerberg was born in Malmö, Malmöhus County, Sweden.
Career
Widerberg was th ...
and
Jan Troell
Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish writer-director, and cinematographer. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with I ...
as leading names.
Schein was often engaged in public debates and demonstrated a distinctive understanding of the use of media.
Schein was also a columnist in ''
Dagens Nyheter
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''Da ...
'' for more than 20 years, and wrote several books on current issues. He also published several largely autobiographical books, including ''Schein'' (1980) and ''Sluten'' (1995). At the
7th Guldbagge Awards he won a Special Achievement award.
Schein was married to the Swedish actress
Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Lilian Thulin (; 27 January 1926 – 7 January 2004) was a Swedish actress and director who collaborated with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She was often cast as harrowing and desperate characters, and earned acclaim from both Swedish a ...
from 1956 to 1989 and was a close friend of
Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until h ...
. He died in 2006 in
Danderyd
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.
References
Notes
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Lars Ilshammar,
Pelle Snickars
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and
Per Vesterlund''Citizen Schein'' 2010.
External links
Swedish Film Database''Ingmar Bergman Foundation''*
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1924 births
2006 deaths
20th-century Swedish writers
Jewish Austrian writers
Swedish essayists
Swedish male writers
Austrian essayists
Austrian columnists
Swedish columnists
Austrian emigrants to Sweden
Male essayists
20th-century essayists
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Sweden