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Jens Peter Hammerich, better known as Rumle Hammerich (born 16 November 1954), is a
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,
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and film company director. He is currently creative director at
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. His filmography consists of both feature films and
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s and
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in Denmark as well as Sweden. His mini series
Young Andersen ''Young Andersen'' (Danish: Unge Andersen) is a 2005 two-part Danish television serial directed by Rumle Hammerich and co-written by Hammerich and Ulf Stark. It chronicles the formative boarding school years of fairy tale writer Hans Christian An ...
—which describes the formative
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years of
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— won an
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for Best international TV Movie/Mini Series in 2005. His crime series
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( da, Livvagterne) won the 2009
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for the best television drama series.


Biography

Jens Peter Hammerich was born on 16 November 1954 in
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to translator Ida Elisabeth Hammerich and Paul Hammerich, journalist, writer and
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at the national Danish newspaper
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. From an early age he was called Rumle and when his father in 1959 asked her mother to translate
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's comic strip
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for Politiken, she gave the perpetually dirty boy
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her son's nickname. He graduated from the
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in 1979, and had his debut as a feature film director in 1983 with the children film ''Otto er et næsehorn'' "Otto Is a Rhino". After working in
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in the early 1990s, directing films such as the horror film
Svart Lucia ''Svart Lucia'' (lit. "Black Lucia" or "Black Saint Lucy's Day") is a Swedish-Danish film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 11 December 1992, directed by Rumle Hammerich. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards Tova Magnusson Norling was nominated ...
and the children film '' Kan du vissla Johanna?'', he was made the director of national Danish television station DR's fiction department in 1994. In 1998 he left DR and the following year he joined
Nordisk Film Nordisk Film A/S (lit. "Nordic Film") is a Danish entertainment company established in 1906 in Copenhagen by filmmaker Ole Olsen. It is the fourth-oldest film studio in the world behind the Gaumont Film Company, Pathé, and Titanus ...
, where he led the subsidiary Nordisk Film Produktion until 2003 when he was made creative director of the company.


Filmography


Directing


Feature films

* '' Otto er et næsehorn'' (1983) * '' The Dog That Smiled'' (1989) * ''
Svart Lucia ''Svart Lucia'' (lit. "Black Lucia" or "Black Saint Lucy's Day") is a Swedish-Danish film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 11 December 1992, directed by Rumle Hammerich. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards Tova Magnusson Norling was nominated ...
'' (1992) * ''
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'' (2009)


TV series and film

* '' Dårfinkar & dönickar'', TV series (3 episodes, 1988–90) * '' Fasadklättraren'', TV (1991) * '' Lærerværelset'', TV (6 episodes, 1994) * '' Kan du vissla Johanna?'', TV (1994) * ''
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'', TV series (2 episodes, 1997) * ''
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'', mini series (2000) * ''
Young Andersen ''Young Andersen'' (Danish: Unge Andersen) is a 2005 two-part Danish television serial directed by Rumle Hammerich and co-written by Hammerich and Ulf Stark. It chronicles the formative boarding school years of fairy tale writer Hans Christian An ...
'', mini series (2005) * ''
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'', series 4, 2018


Documentaries

* '' Cliff Forrest'', documentary (2007)


Producing


Feature films

* '' Once in a Lifetime'', executive producer (2000) * ''
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'', associate producer (2002) * '' Suxxess'', co-producer (2002) * '' Lykkevej'', executive producer (2003) * '' En som Hodder'', executive producer (2003) * ''
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'', creative producer (2004)


TV series

* ''
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'', executive producer (1997) * ''
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'', executive producer (1998) * '' Rundt om Panduro'', executive producer (1998) * ''
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'', executive producer (1 episode, 2002) * Forsvar, executive producer (2003)


Documentaries

* '' Facing the Truth'', executive producer (2002) * '' Cliff Forrest'' (2007)


Screenwriting


Feature films

* '' Den Sidste detalje'' (1981) * ''
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'' (1981) * '' Otto er et næsehorn'' (1983) * '' Skyggen af Emma'' (1988) * ''
Svart Lucia ''Svart Lucia'' (lit. "Black Lucia" or "Black Saint Lucy's Day") is a Swedish-Danish film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 11 December 1992, directed by Rumle Hammerich. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards Tova Magnusson Norling was nominated ...
'' (1992) * ''
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'' (2009)


TV series and films

* ''
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'', story (1987) * '' Fasadklättraren'', TV (1991) * '' Satirica'', TV series (1993) * '' Mellem venner'', idea (1995) * ''
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'', co-writer (2000) * ''
Young Andersen ''Young Andersen'' (Danish: Unge Andersen) is a 2005 two-part Danish television serial directed by Rumle Hammerich and co-written by Hammerich and Ulf Stark. It chronicles the formative boarding school years of fairy tale writer Hans Christian An ...
'' (2005)


References

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