AW Sandberg

Anders Wilhelm Sandberg (born May 22, 1887 in Viborg , Denmark , † March 27, 1938 in Bad Nauheim , Germany ) was a Danish film director and cameraman .

Life

Sandberg earned his living as a press photographer and cameraman in the years before the outbreak of the First World War. In 1914 he switched to film and began to work as a movie director. Sandberg directed a number of artistically insignificant but commercially successful films for the most important Danish production company, Nordisk , including some of the late productions with Valdemar Psilander .

After his first foreign directing guest appearance in Berlin in 1920 , Sandberg staged his best-known and most important works, which at the time were celebrated as true-to-style film adaptations of several of Charles Dickens' novels (especially Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit ). Sandberg then took directorships from Rome and again Berlin and in 1926 shot a remake of his greatest film success during the First World War, The Dancing Gate . After a less promising debut in a sound film in France ( The Mongol and the Dancer ), Sandberg returned to his homeland, where in the remaining years of his life he directed some largely unknown documentaries and feature films.

AW Sandberg was married to the actresses Else Frølich (1880-1960) and Karina Bell (1898-1979), who had played leading roles in many of his silent films.

Filmography

1914: Frederik Buch til søs 1914: House assistants (also camera) 1914: Ungkarl og Aegtemand (also camera) 1914: Smuglerens datter (also camera) 1914: Appetit og kærlighed (also camera) 1915: Lykkeligt indbrud (also camera) 1915: Hovmod står for fald (also camera) 1915: The poor Unstern (Proletardrengen) 1915: The Curse of the Diamond (Cowboymillionæren) 1915: Plimsolleren 1915: Around the portrait of the king (Rytter statues) 1915: The lighthouse disaster (Katastrofen i Kattegat) 1916: love game (Kærlighedsleg) 1916: En kunstners kærlighed 1916: The Dead Ship (Det døde skib) 1916: The mystic tjener 1917: The dancing gate (Klovnen) 1917: De mystiske fodspor 1917: Solskinsbørnene 1918: Kærlighedens almagt 1918: Stodder press 1918: Kærlighedsvalsen 1919: The secrets of the Thames (Vor fælles ven) 1920: Kan dissne øjne lyve?

1920: Pigen from Sydhavsoen 1920: The charity performance of the four devils 1921: Nedbrudte nerver 1921: Great expectations (Store forventninger) 1922: The farmhand's last love (Lasse Månsson fra Skaane) 1922: David Copperfield (David Copperfield) 1922: The Last Dance (Den sidste Dans) 1923: Moraenen 1923: The Vienna Child (Wienerbarnet) 1924: Even a girl can be wrong (Kan kvinder fejle?) 1924: Little Dorrit (Lille Dorrit) 1925: When two love each other (Fra Piazza del Popolo) 1926: The dancing gate (Klovnen) 1927: Marriage scandal at Fromont jr. and Risler sr. 1928: Revolutionary wedding 1930: The Mongol and the Dancer (Le capitaine jaune) 1933: Fem raske piger 1934: 7-9-13 1935: København (documentary film) 1935: Tuborgfilmen (documentary film) 1935: Til Danmark over de store broer (documentary) 1936: Vikings, deres forfærdre og efterkommere (documentary film) 1936: Indvielse af Storstromsbroen (documentary film) 1937: Millionærdrengen

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 33 f.

Web links

• AW Sandberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)