Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1947-03-02 (77 years old)

Place of Birth Copenhagen, Denmark

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Biography

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (born 2 March 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques. Kragh-Jacobsen started out as a popular musician in Denmark, before attending film school in Prague. After returning to Denmark, he directed and co-wrote television productions. He became one of the developers of the avant-garde film-making project Dogme95, based on creating films based only on reality, without artificial lighting and technology. His first feature film was Wanna See My Beautiful Navel? (1978). This was followed by the successful Rubber Tarzan (1981), Thunderbirds (1983), Emma's Shadow (1988), Shower of Gold (1988), The Boys from St. Petri (1991), The Island on Bird Street (1997), and his international break-through, dogme No. 3 Mifune's Last Song (1999), and Skagerrak (2003). Mifune's Last Song won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Skagerrak was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. He has done some commercials and Danish/Swedish TV series. Acclaimed internationally, he has received several major awards for his work, including the Memorial François Truffaut Award/Giffoni, an Emmy for The Island on Bird Street and a Silver Bear at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin for Mifune's Last Song. The Boys from St. Petri was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

Known For

Director

2020
2016
Follow the Money

as Director

2013
2010
Borgen

as Director

2008
What No One Knows

as Director

2003
Sweet Dreams

as Director

2000
D-Day

as Director

1999
Mifune

as Director

1991
1988
Emma's Shadow

as Director

1988
Shower of Gold

as Director

1985
1983
Isfugle

as Director

1981
Rubber Tarzan

as Director

Writer

2020
The Butterfly Swing

as Screenplay

2013
The Hour of the Lynx

as Screenplay

2003
Sweet Dreams

as Screenplay

1999
Mifune

as Author

1988
Emma's Shadow

as Screenplay

1984
1984
Ude på noget

as Writer

1983
Isfugle

as Writer

1981
Rubber Tarzan

as Writer

Actor

2022
2003
The Purified

as Himself

1986
Guldregn

as Fortæller