Lau Lauritzen junior
Lau Lauritzen Jr. (Born June 26, 1910 in Vejle ; † May 12, 1977 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish film director , actor and screenwriter . His feature films were awarded four times with the Bodil , Denmark's most important film award, while in 1942 he directed the first Danish film noir together with Bodil Ipsen . He was co-founder of the Danish film production company ASA Film and its artistic director from 1937 to 1945 and its administrative director from 1945 to 1964.
Life
Lau Lauritzen was born in Vejle, on the east coast of Jutland , in 1910 , the son of the silent film actor and director Lau Lauritzen , who is well known in Denmark, and his wife Johanne Christensen. Like his father, he pursued a career in the film industry and began working for film studios in England , Germany , France and Belgium . After his return to Denmark, he worked for his father from 1931 to 1933 for the film production company Palladium in various positions, including screenwriting (1929-1939), cameraman, sound engineer and assistant director . Before he was 24, Lauritzen made his debut as a film director in 1934 with the comedy Ud i den kolde sne , which he directed together with Alice O'Fredericks . The Dane also worked as an assistant director for Lauritzen sen. with palladium . In the same year, Lauritzen also appeared for the first time as an actor in the comedy Barken Margrethe , which was directed by his father. A close collaboration with O'Fredericks as co-director followed in the 1930s and 1940s, resulting in 27 joint films.
In 1937 Lauritzen founded the film production company ASA Film together with directors John Olsen and Henning Karmark and held the post of artistic director. At ASA Film he often conducted coregy with well-known colleagues such as Alice O'Fredericks and Bodil Ipsen and repeatedly took on large and small acting roles in his works. During the Second World War , in Denmark occupied by the German Wehrmacht , he continued his work and was involved in the production of 22 films. Derailed people were one of these (1942). The psychological thriller, the first joint production with Bodil Ipsen, is considered the first film noir in Danish film history. In this one, Ilona Wieselman slipped into the role of a memory loss doctor's daughter who found herself among prostitutes as the mistress of a gangster and ended tragically.
After the war ended, the second collaboration with Bodil Ipsen followed with Rote Wiesen (1945). The drama, which is set at the time of the German occupation in World War II and reports on the Danish resistance, was starred with Poul Reichhardt and Lisbeth Movin . The Danish actress, seven years her junior, had Laurizen Jr. married a year earlier. In 1946, Rote Wiesen received an invitation to compete at the first ever Cannes Film Festival . There the film shared the main prize, the Grand Prix , with ten other feature film productions.
After the success in Cannes, the films by Lauritzen and Ipsen enjoyed repeated success in Denmark. Her directorial work was awarded three times by Bodil for the best Danish film of the year : 1949 for the war drama Støt står den danske sømand (1948), in which Lauritzen also played acting roles together with his wife, in 1951 for the alcoholic film Café Paradis (1950), again occupied by Poul Reichhardt, and resigned for Det sande in 1952 (1951). In the last-mentioned crime film, Lauritzen took on the lead role of the architect Troels Rolff, who is innocently suspected of murdering and raping a young woman. A year later he took over the sole direction of the crime drama The Seduced and was again awarded the Bodil. The gloomy milieu study focused on delinquent youth in Copenhagen.
After Die Verführten , Lauritzen was unable to build on earlier successes, although he was still involved in the production of eleven other film productions, including the love comedy When All Strings Tear (1958) with the Danish-Dutch hit duo Nina & Frederik, which was popular at the time in the leading roles. From 1945 to 1964 Lauritzen was administrative director of ASA Film . His last feature film in which he took over the production and direction was the comedy Mig og min lillebror og Bølle with Dirch Passer and Poul Reichardt. During his career he has directed a total of 64 films, completed 27 appearances as an actor and worked on the scripts of 25 films. As a cameraman he was involved in three productions in the early 1930s, followed in 1950 with The Red Horses, his fourth and final production in this field.
Lauritzen was married twice. First marriage to Nina Borthern, the daughter of a Norwegian shipping magnate. His second marriage was in 1945 with the Danish actress Lisbeth Movin. Movin he entrusted roles in many of his films. She was also the director of his last feature films Min kone fra Paris (1961), the drama Rikki und die Männer , in which Ghita Nørby successfully published her memoirs as a prostitute, and Mig og min lillebror og Bølle (1969). His connection with Movin resulted in his daughter Lone Lau, born in 1950, who, like her mother, appeared as a film actress from the late 1960s. Lauritzen died in Copenhagen in 1977 at the age of 66 and found his final resting place in the church cemetery in Hørsholm.
Filmography
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Awards
- 1946: Grand Prix of the Cannes International Film Festival for Red Meadows (together with Bodil Ipsen )
- 1949: Bodil for Støt står den danske sømand (Category: Best Film )
- 1951: Bodil for Café Paradis (best film)
- 1952: Bodil for Det sande ansigt (best film)
- 1954: Bodil for The Seduced (best film)
Web links
- Profile at danskefilm.dk (Danish)
- Portrait on the website of the Danish Film Institute (Danish)
- Lau Lauritzen junior in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Jørholt, Eva; Schepelern, Peter: 100 Års Dansk Film . Copenhagen: Rosinante, 2001. - ISBN 9788773579480 . Pp. 130-131
- ↑ a b cf. Profile at danskefilm.dk (Danish; accessed May 9, 2009)
- ↑ cf. Derailed people . In: film-dienst 10/1952
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lauritzen, Lau junior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lauritzen, Lau Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish film director, actor and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vejle |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1977 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |