Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Directing
- Born
- March 2, 1947 (age 79) · Copenhagen, Denmark
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (born 2 March 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques.
Kragh-Jacobsen started out as a popular musician in Denmark, before attending film school in Prague. After returning to Denmark, he directed and co-wrote television productions.
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He became one of the developers of the avant-garde film-making project Dogme95, based on creating films based only on reality, without artificial lighting and technology.
His first feature film was Wanna See My Beautiful Navel? (1978). This was followed by the successful Rubber Tarzan (1981), Thunderbirds (1983), Emma's Shadow (1988), Shower of Gold (1988), The Boys from St. Petri (1991), The Island on Bird Street (1997), and his international break-through, dogme No. 3 Mifune's Last Song (1999), and Skagerrak (2003). Mifune's Last Song won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Skagerrak was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.
He has done some commercials and Danish/Swedish TV series.
Acclaimed internationally, he has received several major awards for his work, including the Memorial François Truffaut Award/Giffoni, an Emmy for The Island on Bird Street and a Silver Bear at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin for Mifune's Last Song. The Boys from St. Petri was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Known for
Mifune
March 12, 1999
The Island on Bird Street
April 11, 1997
Hugo, the Jungle Creature
December 10, 1993
Rubber Tarzan
October 15, 1981
D-Day
January 1, 2000
What No One Knows
February 11, 2008
The Hour of the Lynx
September 26, 2013
The Boys from St. Petri
October 11, 1991
Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?
October 9, 1978
Emma's Shadow
January 1, 1988
Sweet Dreams
March 14, 2003
The Butterfly Swing
December 3, 2020
Behind the camera16
- 2020The Butterfly Swing Director, Screenplay
- 2013The Hour of the Lynx Director, Screenplay
- 2008What No One Knows Director
- 2003Sweet Dreams Director, Screenplay
- 2000D-Day Director, Writer
- 1999Mifune Director, Writer
- 1997The Island on Bird Street Director
- 1993Hugo, the Jungle Creature Songs
- 1991The Boys from St. Petri Director, Writer
- 1988Shower of Gold