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Åke Sandgren is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director Danois born on 13 may 1955 at Umeå (Suede)

Åke Sandgren

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Nationality Danemark
Birth 13 may 1955 (69 years) at Umeå (Suede)

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.

He won the Golden Bear award for Best Short Film at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival with his film Cykelsymfonien (The Bicycle Symphony). 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. He has collaborated with a number of other Danish film directors including Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Stig Håkan Larsson and Lars von Trier.

Usually with

Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier
(1 films)
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
(2 films)
Stig Larsson
Stig Larsson
(2 films)
Lina Englund
Lina Englund
(1 films)
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Åke Sandgren (7 films)

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Director

Truly Human
Truly Human (2001)
, 1h34
Directed by Åke Sandgren
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Peter Mygind, Klaus Bondam
Rating67% 3.389813.389813.389813.389813.38981
A contemporary fable about an invisible man who is given the chance to become a real human being. "P" is an imaginary character in the mind of seven-year-old Lisa. He lives behind the wallpaper in her bedroom. One day the house is demolished and he emerges from the rubble. With no language or identity he sets out into the human world, ending up at a refugee centre. This is the start of the account of "P's" dramatic progress through decline on his way to become truly human.
Beyond
Beyond (2000)
, 1h31
Directed by Åke Sandgren
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Horror
Actors Otto Brandenburg, Jytte Abildstrøm, Bjørn Floberg, Bjarne Henriksen
Rating54% 2.705932.705932.705932.705932.70593
Faisant de la plongée au large des côtes danoises en compagnie de leur grand-père, deux jeunes frères, Christian et Ask, découvrent une épave de sous-marin nazi perdue dans les profondeurs. Attiré par le bruit étrange, Christian entre…
The Slingshot
The Slingshot (1993)
, 1h42
Directed by Åke Sandgren
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Frida Hallgren, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Axel Düberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Ing-Marie Carlsson
Rating64% 3.2471753.2471753.2471753.2471753.247175
Roland (Salén) is the 12-year-old son of a Russian Jewish mother (Frydman) and a socialist father (Skarsgård), coming of age in 1920s Stockholm. Due to his family's background, he has become an outcast to those around him, a constant target of bullying by his peers, and often humiliated and physically punished by a sadistic schoolteacher (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) in front of classmates. In retaliation against his tormentors, Roland steals condoms from his mother's tobacco shop inventory and turns them into crude slingshot weapons. He also falls in love with a neighborhood girl (Frida Hallgren), but as Roland attempts to toughen up and improve his troubled life, he also allies with the wrong group of friends and inadvertently makes himself a juvenile offender.

Scriptwriter

Truly Human
Truly Human (2001)
, 1h34
Directed by Åke Sandgren
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Peter Mygind, Klaus Bondam
Rating67% 3.389813.389813.389813.389813.38981
A contemporary fable about an invisible man who is given the chance to become a real human being. "P" is an imaginary character in the mind of seven-year-old Lisa. He lives behind the wallpaper in her bedroom. One day the house is demolished and he emerges from the rubble. With no language or identity he sets out into the human world, ending up at a refugee centre. This is the start of the account of "P's" dramatic progress through decline on his way to become truly human.
Beyond
Beyond (2000)
, 1h31
Directed by Åke Sandgren
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Horror
Actors Otto Brandenburg, Jytte Abildstrøm, Bjørn Floberg, Bjarne Henriksen
Roles Writer
Rating54% 2.705932.705932.705932.705932.70593
Faisant de la plongée au large des côtes danoises en compagnie de leur grand-père, deux jeunes frères, Christian et Ask, découvrent une épave de sous-marin nazi perdue dans les profondeurs. Attiré par le bruit étrange, Christian entre…
The Slingshot
The Slingshot (1993)
, 1h42
Directed by Åke Sandgren
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Frida Hallgren, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Axel Düberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Ing-Marie Carlsson
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.2471753.2471753.2471753.2471753.247175
Roland (Salén) is the 12-year-old son of a Russian Jewish mother (Frydman) and a socialist father (Skarsgård), coming of age in 1920s Stockholm. Due to his family's background, he has become an outcast to those around him, a constant target of bullying by his peers, and often humiliated and physically punished by a sadistic schoolteacher (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) in front of classmates. In retaliation against his tormentors, Roland steals condoms from his mother's tobacco shop inventory and turns them into crude slingshot weapons. He also falls in love with a neighborhood girl (Frida Hallgren), but as Roland attempts to toughen up and improve his troubled life, he also allies with the wrong group of friends and inadvertently makes himself a juvenile offender.

Producer

Accused
Accused (2005)

Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Troels Lyby, Sofie Gråbøl, Louise Mieritz, Søren Malling, Bodil Jørgensen, Charlotte Sieling
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.4938553.4938553.4938553.4938553.493855
Stine accuse son père d'agression sexuelle, mais l'adolescente est connue pour son penchant au mensonge et sa mère met en doute sa sincérité.
Reconstruction
Reconstruction (2003)
, 1h30
Directed by Christoffer Boe
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson, Nicolas Bro, Peter Steen, Ida Dwinger
Roles Producer
Rating72% 3.64613.64613.64613.64613.6461
The central character is Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), a Danish photographer with a Stockholm-bred girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie).

Director

The Element of Crime
The Element of Crime (1984)
, 1h44
Directed by Lars von Trier
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Serial killer films, Dystopian films
Actors Esmond Knight, Michael Elphick, Jerold Wells, Astrid Henning-Jensen, János Herskó, Stig Larsson
Roles Assistant Director
Rating66% 3.3470753.3470753.3470753.3470753.347075
A detective named Fisher, who has become an expatriate living in Cairo, undergoes hypnosis in order to recall his last case. The postwar Germany of his dreamlike recollection is a dystopia, dark and decaying. Fisher remembers pursuing an elusive killer called the "Lotto Murderer", who was strangling and then mutilating young girls who were selling lottery tickets. He attempts to track down the killer using the controversial methods outlined in a book entitled The Element of Crime, written by his disgraced mentor, Osborne. He is joined in his search by a prostitute named Kim, who, it turns out, has had a child by his target. Fisher's search is based on a tailing report written by Osborne when trying to track down a murderer who had been killing in the same way as the "Lotto Murderer", but who, supposedly, has since died in a crash. The Osborne method requires the detective to try to identify with the mind of the killer. This he does, but, in so doing, begins to behave more and more like a serial killer himself.