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
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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)
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SURNAME | Sandberg, AW |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sandberg, Anders Wilhelm (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish film director and cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1887 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Viborg , Denmark |
DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1938 |
Place of death | Bad Nauheim , Germany |