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Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentian-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States. Babenco
lived in Europe from 1964 to 1968. In 1969, he decided to permanently move to São Paulo, Brazil.
In 1975, he directed his first feature film, ‘King of the Night’.
His break-out film was Pixote - A lei do mais fraco (1981) about Brazil's abandoned children. Aided
by the impressive work of young actor Fernando Ramos da Silva, the film was a worldwide success
and received numerous international prizes.
For his 1985 film ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’, Babenco was nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Director, became the first Latin-American to be nominated in this category. He has directed
some of the most respected American actors in cinema, including: William Hurt, John Lithgow,
Raul Julia, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates
among others.
Retrospective
Hector Babenco
2016
Carandiru
Carandiru
2003 - 145’- Portuguese - Colour - Brazil, Argentina, Italy
Retrospective: Hector Babenco
Director: Hector Babenco
Producer: Hector Babenco, Oscar Kramer, Ruipires
Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de
Almeida, Maria Luisa Mendonça
Screenplay: Victor Navas, Hector Babenco, Fernando
Bonassi
Director of Photography: Walter Carvalho (ABC), Brazilian
Association Cinematographers
Editor: Mauro Alice
Music Composer: André Abujamra
Costume Designer: Cristina Camargo
Production Designer: Clovis Bueno
Production Company: HB Filmes, Globo Filmes (coproduction), BR Petrobhas
World Sales Address: HB Filmes
This confrontational drama is based on the best-selling novel by Dr. Drauzio Varella. The
episodic story is set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention (referred to as Carandiru), one of
Latin America's largest prison systems. The doctor is an oncologist who arrives in the jail to
test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation
of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners.
Several narratives develop, including the attempted murder of Dagger, the solitary
confinement of Chico, and the romance between Lady Di and Too Bad. The doctor
eventually establishes a routine and sees the prisoners as survivors, leading up to the
violent conclusion. The movie is a reconstruction of the October 2, 1992, prison riot
known as the Carandiru Massacre.
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Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentinian-Brazilian film director,
screenwriter, producer and actor. He has worked in several countries
including Argentina, Brazil and the United States.In 1975, he directed his
first feature film, 'King of the Night'. His break-out film was Pixote - A Lei
Do Maisfraco (1981) about Brazil's abandoned children. The film was a
worldwide success and received numerous international prizes. For his
1985 film 'Kiss of the Spider Woman', Babenco was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director, became the first Latin-American to be
nominated in this category.
Festival/Awards:
Havana Film Festival: Audience Award (2003)
Cartageno Film Festival (2004)
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize (2004)
ACIE Awards Brazil (2004)
Director’s Filmography
Foolish Heart (1998)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Ironweed (1987)
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
Pixote (1981)
Lucio Flavio (1977)
O Reida Noite (1975)
2016
Foolish Heart
Corazón Iluminado
1998 - 130’- Spanish - Colour - Argentina, Brazil, France
Retrospective: Hector Babenco
Director: Héctor Babenco
Producer: Héctor Babenco, Francisco Ramalho Jr.
Cast: Miguel ÁngelSolá, Maria Luísa Mendonça
Screenplay: Héctor Babenco, Ricardo Piglia
Cinematographer: Lauro Escorel
Editor: Mauro Alice
Costume Designer: Magali Izaguirre, Marisa Urruti
Music Composer: Zbigniew Preisner
World Sales Address: HB Filmes, Canalt, Flash Film
Festival/Awards:
Cannes Film Festival (Nominated) (1998)
Argentine Film Critics Associations Awards (Nominated)
(1999)
Hector Babenco has injected autobiographical details into this tale of an Argentine teen's
first romance. Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several
intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's
financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite acknowledging that she spent two
years at a clinic because she was 'crazy'. Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a doorto-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a
viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood
director.
Director’s Biography
Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentinian-Brazilian film director,
screenwriter, producer and actor. He has worked in several countries
including Argentina, Brazil and the United States.In 1975, he directed his
first feature film, 'King of the Night'. His break-out film was Pixote - A Lei
Do Maisfraco (1981) about Brazil's abandoned children. The film was a
worldwide success and received numerous international prizes. For his
1985 film 'Kiss of the Spider Woman', Babenco was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director, became the first Latin-American to be
nominated in this category.
Director’s Filmography
Foolish Heart (1998)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Ironweed (1987)
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
Pixote (1981)
Lucio Flavio (1977)
O Reida Noite (1975)
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2016
The Past
El Pasado
2007 - 114’- Spanish - Colour - Brazil, Argentina
Retrospective: Hector Babenco
Director: Hector Babenco
Producer: Hector Babenco, Hugo Sigman, Oscar Kramer
Cast: Hector Babenco, Mabi Abele, Mariana Anghileri,
Mimí Ardú
Screenplay: Hector Babenco, Marta Goes, Alan Pauls
(novel)
Cinematographer: Ricardo Della Rosa
Editor: Gustavo Giani
Music Composer: Ivan Wyszogrod
Production Designer: Sebastián Orgambide
Production Company: 20th Century Fox de Argentina,
Chemo, HB Filmes, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes
Audiovisuales (INCAA) (support), K&S Films, Kramer &
Sigman Films
Festival/Awards:
A couple decides to split after 12 years together. The man finds it easy to move on, but
difficult to prevent his ex from hounding him, or the new women in his life.
SESC Film Festival: (Brazil 2008) Best Foreign Actor : Gael
García Bernal
Rome Film Fest (2007)
Director’s Biography
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Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentinian-Brazilian film director,
screenwriter, producer and actor. He has worked in several countries
including Argentina, Brazil and the United States.In 1975, he directed his
first feature film, 'King of the Night'. His break-out film was Pixote - A Lei
Do Maisfraco (1981) about Brazil's abandoned children. The film was a
worldwide success and received numerous international prizes. For his
1985 film 'Kiss of the Spider Woman', Babenco was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director, became the first Latin-American to be
nominated in this category.
Director’s Filmography
Foolish Heart (1998)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Ironweed (1987)
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
Pixote (1981)
Lucio Flavio (1977)
O Reida Noite (1975)
2016
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
1985 - 120’- English, French, Portugese, German - Colour (Metrocolour) - Brazil, U.S.A
Retrospective: Hector Babenco
Director: Hector Babenco
Producer: Altamiro Boscoli (associate producer), Paulo
Francini (associate producer), Francisco Ramalho (Jr.
executive producer), Bernard Sofronski (supervising
producer), Jaime Sverner (associate producer), David
Weisman (producer)
Cast: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga
Screenplay: Manuel Puig (novel), Leonard Schrader
Cinematographer: Rodolfo Sánchez
Editor: Mauro Alice
Sound Designer: Mark Berger (supervising re-recording
mixer), Paul Coombe (sound re-recording mixer), Ismael
Cordeiro (production sound mixer), Susan Dudeck
(supervising sound editor)
Music Composer: Nando Carneiro , John Neschling
Costume Designer: Patricio Bisso
Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell-mates in a South American prison. Luis, a
transvestite, is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To
escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the
situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand
and respect one another.
Director’s Biography
Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentinian-Brazilian film director,
screenwriter, producer and actor. He has worked in several countries
including Argentina, Brazil and the United States.In 1975, he directed his
first feature film, 'King of the Night'. His break-out film was Pixote - A Lei
Do Maisfraco (1981) about Brazil's abandoned children. The film was a
worldwide success and received numerous international prizes. For his
1985 film 'Kiss of the Spider Woman', Babenco was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director, became the first Latin-American to be
nominated in this category.
Production Designer: Clovis Bueno
Production Company: HB Filmes, Film Dallas Pictures
World Sales Address: HB Filmes
Festival/Awards:
Academy awards USA- Won two Oscars (1986)
Golden Globes USA (1986)
BAFTA Awards (1986)
Cannes Film Festival (1985)
David di Donatello Awards (1986)
Independent Spirit Awards (1986)
Director’s Filmography
Foolish Heart (1998)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Ironweed (1987)
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
Pixote (1981)
Lucio Flavio (1977)
O Reida Noite (1975)
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2016
Lucio Flavio
Lúcio Flávio, O Passageiro Da Agonia
1977 - 118’- Portuguese - Colour - Brazil
Retrospective: Hector Babenco
Director: Héctor Babenco
Producer: Ignacio Gerber, Carlos Alberto Diniz
Cast: Reginaldo Faria, Ana Maria Magalhães, Grande Otelo,
Screenplay: José Louzeiro, Jorge Durán, Héctor Babenco
Cinematographer: Lauro Escorel
Editor: Silvio Renoldi
Music Composer: John Neschling
Production Company: Embrafilme, HB Filmes, Unifilme
World Sales Address: HB Filmes
Festival/Awards:
São Paulo International Film Festival (1977)
Gramado Film Festival (1978)
Taormina International Film Festival (1978)
This is story of the Brazilian Police's so-called 'death squads' and their conflict with a killer
bank-robber. This Brazilian bank-robber Lúcio Flávio, fascinated some people in Rio de
Janeiro during the 1970s for his bold robberies and spectacular escapes, and also because
he was thought to be intelligent and 'politically aware'. Before dying, he disclosed a
network of corruption in Brazilian Police, and its involvement with the infamous 'Death
Squad' of the time, a group of policemen who went about killing criminals without giving
them a fair trial.
Director’s Biography
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Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentinian-Brazilian film director,
screenwriter, producer and actor. He has worked in several countries
including Argentina, Brazil and the United States.In 1975, he directed his
first feature film, 'King of the Night'. His break-out film was Pixote - A Lei
Do Maisfraco (1981) about Brazil's abandoned children. The film was a
worldwide success and received numerous international prizes. For his
1985 film 'Kiss of the Spider Woman', Babenco was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director, became the first Latin-American to be
nominated in this category.
Director’s Filmography
Foolish Heart (1998)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Ironweed (1987)
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
Pixote (1981)
Lucio Flavio (1977)
O Reida Noite (1975)
2016
King Of The Night
O Rei Da Noite
1975 - 97’- Portuguese - Colour - Brazil
Retrospective: Hector Babenco
Director: Hector Babenco
Producer: Hector Babenco, Ignacio Gerber, Jose Pinto
Cast: Paulo Jose, Marilia Pera, Vick Militello, Isadora De
Farias, Cristina Pereira, Yara Amaaral, Emilio Fontana
Screenplay: Hector Babenco and Orlando Senna
Cinematographer: Lauro Escorel
Editor: Silvio Renoldi
Sound Designer: Julio Perez Caballar
Music Composer: Paulo Herculano
Costume Designer: Laonte Klawa
Production Company: HB Filmes and Jose Pinto Producoes
World Sales Address: HB Filmes
Festival/Awards:
Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema (Best Actor) (1976)
Tertullian tells his story from childhood, when he was born around the 1920s in a
traditional São Paulo family ruined by the mental illness of his father, to the decadent old
age. As a youth, he dotes Ana, the family girl, but the marriage did not happen because her
parents were admitted to a sanatorium because of health problems (she suffered from
‘heart murmur’). Disillusioned, Tertullian studies and works with his uncle but soon
abandons everything and goes to São Paulo. He becomes a bohemian, having affairs with
prostitutes and cabaret singers who present themselves as ‘The Queen of the Night’. At
the same time he knows three sisters, daughters of Dona Sinha, a mother of his friend, and
ends up marrying one of them, while trying to return to a quiet life. But he starts to suffer
with jealousy, humiliation and wife insecurities.
Director’s Biography
Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentinian-Brazilian film director,
screenwriter, producer and actor. He has worked in several countries
including Argentina, Brazil and the United States.In 1975, he directed his
first feature film, 'King of the Night'. His break-out film was Pixote - A Lei
Do Maisfraco (1981) about Brazil's abandoned children. The film was a
worldwide success and received numerous international prizes. For his
1985 film 'Kiss of the Spider Woman', Babenco was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director, became the first Latin-American to be
nominated in this category.
Director’s Filmography
Foolish Heart (1998)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Ironweed (1987)
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
Pixote (1981)
Lucio Flavio (1977)
O Reida Noite (1975)
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2016
Pixote
Pixote: A Lei Do Mais Fraco
1981 - 128’- Portuguese - Colour - Brazil
Retrospective: Hector Babenco
Director: Hector Babenco
Producer: Hector Babenco, Paulo Francini, Jose Pinto
Cast: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto
Moura, Edilson Lino
Screenplay: Hector Babenco, Jorge Durán, Jose Louzeiro
Costume Designer: Clovis Bueno
Sound Designer: Jose Luiz Sasso
Cinematographer: Rodolfo Sánchez
Editor: Luiz Elias
Music Composer: John Neschling
Production Company: Embrafilme
World Sales Address: HB Filmes
Festival/Awards:
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1982: Best Film, Best
Actress
Fathered by strangers, abandoned by their mothers, thrown away by society, the children
of "Pixote" live by their wits on the cruel streets of Sao Paolo in Brazil. They improvise their
own families, forming shifting alliances based on need, fear and even love. Their economy
is based on the only two markets open to them, sex and drugs. Many of them are so young,
they only vaguely understand sex; they are hardened by sights and experiences they
don't even comprehend. Homeless adolescent Pixote finds himself thrown into a juvenile
prison in a roundup of Sao Paulo's street children. The prison is a nightmarish world where
sadistic guards torture and murder the young inmates. Fleeing with a transgendered
fellow inmate named Lilica and her boyfriend, Dito, Pixote journeys to the streets of Rio de
Janeiro and becomes enmeshed in an underworld of drugs and violence.
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Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentinian-Brazilian film director,
screenwriter, producer and actor. He has worked in several countries
including Argentina, Brazil and the United States.In 1975, he directed his
first feature film, 'King of the Night'. His break-out film was Pixote - A Lei
Do Maisfraco (1981) about Brazil's abandoned children. The film was a
worldwide success and received numerous international prizes. For his
1985 film 'Kiss of the Spider Woman', Babenco was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Director, became the first Latin-American to be
nominated in this category.
Locarno International Film Festival 1981: Silver Leopard:
Hector Babenco
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1981: Best
Foreign Film
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1981: Best Foreign
Language Film
Director’s Filmography
Foolish Heart (1998)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Ironweed (1987)
Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
Pixote (1981)
Lucio Flavio (1977)
O Reida Noite (1975)
Nils Sigurd Malmros is a film director and screenwriter, a leading auteur of realism in Danish
cinema, known for his detailed focus on the growing pains of adolescence and the loss of
innocence.
Malmros, is a self-educated filmmaker, a 4-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film
and a 3-time recipient of the Robert Award for Danish Film of the Year. Malmros’s film Lars-Ole
(1973), 5c was hailed as "a little film miracle." Malmros followed this by Boys (Drenge). His ‘Tree of
Knowledge’ (Kundskabens træ) (1981) was selected by the International Film Guide among the 10
best films in the world in 1983.
Malmros made Beauty and the Beast (Skønheden og udyret) in 1983 and dramatic tragedy ‘Pain of
Love’ (Kærlighedens Smerte) in 1992.
‘Barbara’ (1997) is an adaptation of the Danish novel set in the Faroe Islands. In 2009, Malmros
released another coming-of-age story, ‘Aching Hearts’ (Kærestesorger). About his last film Sorrow
and Joy wrote FilmComment New York: With Sorrow and Joy he has created one of the most
shattering and elevating expressions of love in film history.
Retrospective
Nils Malmors
2016
Aarhus By Night
Aarhus By Night
1989 -101’- Danish - Colour - Denmark
Retrospective: Nils Malmros
Director: Nils Malmros
Producer: Per Holst
Cast: Thomas Schindel, Tom Mc Ewan, Michael Caroe,
Soren Ostergaard, Lars H.U.G, Vibeke Borberg, Line ArlienSoborg.
Screenplay: Nils Malmros
Cinematographer: JanWeincke
Editor: Briger Moller
Sound Designer: Niels Arild
Music Composer: Gunner Moller Pedersen
Costume Designer: Pia Myrdal and Francois Nicolet
Production Designer: Soren Kragh Sorensen
Production Company: Per Holst Film produktion,
Danmarks Radio (DR), Det Danske Film institut.
A young filmmaker from the province who sets off to make his first big budget film about
his own childhood faces some challenges during his production process with his cast of
hardened film workers from the capital. The idealistic, ambitious and immature director
struggles in dealing with the cast and meanwhile he also falls in love with his lead actress
and is unable to resolve his problems. A bitter sweet comedy about of clash of morals.
World Sales Address: Trustnordisk aps, Filmbyen 22, 2650
Hvidovre, Denmark .
World Sales Phone: :+45 3686 8788
World Sales Email: [email protected]
Director’s Biography
Nils Malors is one of the most important Danish directors of the last three
decades and one of Danish cinema's few acknowledged auteur, he took
his inspiration from the French new wave in general and Truffaut in
particular. He started as a self-taught director and debuted with En
Mærkelig Kærlighed (1968), an amateur film. His career got going with
the largely self-financed Lars Ole, 5c (1973) which, like his next films, was
based on his own childhood experiences. His flair for depicting the pains
and bittersweet troubles of early adolescence raised him to the status of
a leading director in Denmark.
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Director’s Filmography
Sorrow and Joy (2013)
Facing the Truth (2002)
Kærlighedenssmerte ("Pains of love") (1992)
Skønhedenogudyret (1983)
Tree of Knowledge(1981)
Boys (1977)
2016
Facing The Truth
At Kende Sandheden
2002 -98’- Danish - Black and White - Denmark
Retrospective: Nils Malmros
Director: Nils Malmros
Producer: ThomasHeinesen
Cast: Jens Albinus, William Rosenberg, Lise Stegger, Lasse
Brovst Andersen, Ida Dwinger, Elin Reimer, Anni Bjorn,
Michael Asmussen.
Screenplay: John Mogensen and Nils Malmros
Cinematographer: Jan Weincke
Editor: Birger Moller Jansen
Sound Designer: Jan Juhler Michael Dela
Music Composer: Guner Moller Pedersen
Costume Designer: Louise Birk Petersen
Production Company: Nordisk Film Production, TV2
Danmark, Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film- & TVFond, Bikubenfonden, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje
The film is a portrait of a famous Danish neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Malmros, the director's
father. The film opens in 1944 as a fisherman suffering from a stroke consults Dr. Malmros,
who operates him by injecting Thorotrast (a radioactive contrast medium) and cures him
from the disease, which otherwise would have killed him. However, the patient develops
liver cancer 30 years later as an invetible result of the use of Thorotrast, and dies as a
result. The story goes in flashback through the neurosurgeons life from his childhood
struggle with poverty to unemployment due to World War I and it continues to the trial
where he was accused of the patient's death. The story focuses on the truth reported in
the media and his personal dilemma that he faced while he had knowledge about the
consequences of using thorotrast and making decisions at crucial times, finding
alternatives to it. He is haunted by a feeling of guilt when he recalls how his aunt used to
preach him about dangers of sin in his childhood.
World Sales Address: Trustnordisk aps, Filmbyen 22, 2650
Hvidovre, Denmark .
World Sales Phone: :+45 3686 8788
World Sales Email: [email protected]
Festival/Awards:
Bodil Awards 2003
Mar Del Plata Film Festival
Robert Award
Sochi International Film Festival
Director’s Biography
Nils Malors is one of the most important Danish directors of the last three
decades and one of Danish cinema's few acknowledged auteur, he took
his inspiration from the French new wave in general and Truffaut in
particular. He started as a self-taught director and debuted with En
Mærkelig Kærlighed (1968), an amateur film. His career got going with
the largely self-financed Lars Ole, 5c (1973) which, like his next films, was
based on his own childhood experiences. His flair for depicting the pains
and bittersweet troubles of early adolescence raised him to the status of
a leading director in Denmark.
Director’s Filmography
Sorrow and Joy (2013)
Facing the Truth (2002)
Kærlighedenssmerte ("Pains of love") (1992)
Skønhedenogudyret (1983)
Tree of Knowledge(1981)
Boys (1977)
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2016
Barbara
Barbara
1997 - 143’- Danish, Faroese - Colour - Denmark
Retrospective: Nils Malmros
Director: Nils Malmros
Producer: Per Holst
Cast: Lars Simonsen, Anneke von der Lippe, TrondHøvik,
Helene Egelund.
Screenplay: Nils Malmros, John Mogenson
Cinematographer: Jan Weincke
Editor: Birger Møller Jensen
Sound Designer: Jan Juhler
Music Composer: Gunner Møller, Pedersen
Costume Designer: Manon Rasmussen
Production Designer: SorenKrag Sorensen,LasseWestfelt
Production Company: Per Holst Filmproduktion
World Sales Address: Trustnordisk Aps, Filmbyen 22, 2650
Hvidovre, Denmark
World Sales Phone: +45 3686 8788
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives 1760 at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the
young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite
the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to
Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant
Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
World Sales Email:[email protected]
Director’s Biography
Nils Malors is one of the most important Danish directors of the last three
decades and one of Danish cinema's few acknowledged auteur, he took
his inspiration from the French new wave in general and Truffaut in
particular. He started as a self-taught director and debuted with En
Mærkelig Kærlighed (1968), an amateur film. His career got going with
the largely self-financed Lars Ole, 5c (1973) which, like his next films, was
based on his own childhood experiences. His flair for depicting the pains
and bittersweet troubles of early adolescence raised him to the status of
a leading director in Denmark.
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Director’s Filmography
Sorrow and Joy (2013)
Facing the Truth (2002)
Kærlighedenssmerte ("Pains of love") (1992)
Skønhedenogudyret (1983)
Tree of Knowledge(1981)
Boys (1977)