Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

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Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (born March 2, 1947 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish director. In addition, Kragh-Jacobsen was also active as a musician, composer, screenwriter, producer and television presenter.

Life

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen studied directing at the FAMU film school in Prague until 1970 . He then worked for the children's and youth department of Danish television. In 1978 he made his cinema debut with Do you want to see my pretty belly button? . The youth film depicts the journey of a ninth grade and describes the feelings and longings of normal schoolchildren. In 1981, Gummitarzan followed , the story of a little boy who is bullied because of his physical weakness. In 1984 Søren Kragh Jacobsen turned to adult cinema with the Thornbirds' Cry . Isfugle , as the film is called in the original, is a character study of two very different young men in their mid-twenties. A crime story for children followed in 1987 with Laburnum . Die Junge von St. Petri (1991) shows the Danish resistance of 1942 as an exciting youth drama. A boy's adventurous struggle for survival in the Warsaw Ghetto is the subject of the film Die Insel in Vogelstrasse . With this adaptation of the youth book, Kragh-Jacobsen first became internationally known in 1997.

In addition to Lars von Trier , Kristian Levring and Thomas Vinterberg , Kragh-Jacobsen was one of the signatories of the Dogma 95 manifesto in 1995. In 1999 he presented his first film, made according to these rules: In Mifune - Dogma III , a Copenhagen yuppie finds a life in the country free of lies and taboos after the death of his father. The film, staged with a great sense of humor, is very reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman's comedies and became Kragh-Jacobsen's best-known work.

As before in Mifune, Kragh-Jacobsen cast the female lead again with Iben Hjejle in Skagerrak (2003) . Events come thick and fast here: The drama about love, sex and death is about two young women who arrive in a Scottish port city without money and are therefore not averse to the offer of surrogacy for Scottish aristocrats. In 2004 a multi-part crime story for television followed, a co-production with 5 directors: The Eagle - The Trace of Crime became a “ street sweeper ” in Denmark , and ZDF also broadcast the crime thriller at prime time.

He is the director of the award-winning television series Borgen - Dangerous Ropes (2010).

In 2008, the dogma movement around Kragh-Jacobsen, von Trier, Vinterberg and Levring was honored with the European Film Prize in the category Best European Performance in World Cinema .

Quotes

  • I enjoy working with women and usually have a lot on my team. I like their view of the world, which is different from that of men.
  • I try to design my films as a communicative process. I don't shoot in cathedrals like Ingmar Bergman did: Nobody was allowed to laugh, drink, eat, talk or cough when the master spoke. I prefer a spirit of partnership on set - laughing and thinking together.

(Statements by Søren Kragh Jacobsen in December 2002 after the end of the shooting and in October 2003 during the Hof Film Festival, according to pathefilms.ch)

  • You just notice in your work that “dogma” really brings something. These rules show you a new way. You begin to discover the spectacular in the little things.
  • Of course, every good film is art. But I also want to have fun. And entertain a large audience.

(Interview on artechock.de from May 27, 1999)

Filmography (selection)

  • 1978: Do you want to see my beautiful navel? ( Vil du se min smukke navle? )
  • 1981: Gummitarzan ( Gummi-Tarzan )
  • 1983: Cry of the Thorn Bird ( Isfugle )
  • 1988: Emma's shadow ( Skyggen af ​​Emma )
  • 1988: Golden Rain ( Guldregn )
  • 1991: The boys of St. Petri ( Drengene Fra Sankt Petri )
  • 1993: The hunt for the magic water wheel ( Den korsikanske biskopen )
  • 1997: The island in Vogelstrasse ( Øen i fuglegaden )
  • 1999: Mifune - Dogma III ( Mifunes sidste sang )
  • 2003: Skagerrak
  • 2004: The Eagle - The Trace of Crime ( Ørnen: En krimi-odyssé , TV series)
  • 2008: What nobody knows ( Det som ingen ved )
  • 2010: Borgen - Dangerous rope teams ( Borgen , TV series)
  • 2013: In the hour of the lynx ( I lossens time )
  • 2016: Bedrag (TV series, episodes 9 and 10)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Lifetime Achievement: European Film Prize for Judi Dench. In: fr-online.de . September 10, 2008, accessed December 19, 2014 .