Solveig Hoogesteijn
Solveig Hoogesteijn (born August 3, 1946 in Sweden ) is a film director and screenwriter .
She was born in Sweden as the daughter of a Dutchman and a German. In 1947 she and her family emigrated to Venezuela. From 1971 to 1976 she studied film at the University of Television and Film Munich . Later he studied art and literature at the Central University of Venezuela .
The majority of her films, the scripts of which she wrote herself, were made in Venezuela and in Spanish, some in co-production with other countries (especially Germany and Spain). While she initially mainly made documentaries and films for television, she concentrated her work on feature films from the mid-1970s. She made her feature film debut with the film The Sea of Lost Time (1977), based on a short story by Gabriel García Márquez , which won an award at the International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana four years after its release (1981) . Her Germany can sometimes be very beautiful appeared in German production in 1981 .
In macu, the policeman's wife from 1987 is about a eleven year old who marries a 30 years older policeman. When she falls in love with a young man, the husband kidnaps him.
The film drama Maroa , first published in 2005 , is about an eleven-year-old girl from Caracas who lives in poverty and who develops a passion for music and thus begins a new life. Hoogesteijn got the idea for this film while visiting a children's home in Caracas. This film was Venezuela's entry for a nomination for " Best Foreign Language Film " at the 2007 Academy Awards .
Filmography
- 1977: The Sea of Lost Time (El mar del tiempo perdido)
- 1980: Manoa
- 1981: Germany can be very beautiful sometimes
- 1987: Macú, the policeman's wife (Macu, la mujer del policía)
- 1994: Santera
- 2005: Maroa
Web links
- Solveig Hoogesteijn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoogesteijn, Solveig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan-Swedish film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sweden |