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Bo Gunnar Widerberg ( Swedish: [ˈbuː ˈvîːdɛrbærj]; 8 June 1930 – 1 May 1997) was a Swedish film director, writer, editor and actor. Biography. Early life. Widerberg was born in Malmö, Malmöhus County, Sweden . Career. Bo Widerberg began his career as a writer. In 1952 came his first novel, Hösttermin.
Bo Widerberg was born on 8 June 1930 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a director and writer, known for Adalen 31 (1969), All Things Fair (1995) and Joe Hill (1971). He was married to Vanja Nettelbladt and Ann-Mari Björklund. He died on 1 May 1997 in Ängelholm, Skåne län, Sweden.
Driven by a desire to forge a socially conscious Swedish cinema—one that broke with the inward-looking psychodrama of Ingmar Bergman to give dynamic expression to the everyday experiences of working-class Swedes—writer Bo Widerberg turned to filmmaking in the early 1960s, realizing his ambition in politically committed yet poetic works that ...
Bo Widerberg represents a model of cinema that contravenes that of his illustrious forebear and that delineated for the first time in Sweden’s national cinema the concerns of everyday people, a director who arguably thus influenced Moodyson, Andersson, et. al, more significantly than any of his fellow countrymen.
May 2, 1997 · Bo Widerberg, the lyrical, socially conscious Swedish director of the popular ''Elvira Madigan'' and three films nominated for Academy Awards, died on Thursday at a hospital...
Widerberg directed her mostly by talking over each scene thoroughly and then shooting it without rehearsal, and for her first film role, Miss Degermark won this year's Best Actress Award at Cannes. For Sixten, Widerberg choose Thommy Berggren, a well known Stockholm stage actor who has appeared in all his films.
May 1, 1997 · Bo Widerberg, (June 8, 1930 – May 1, 1997) was a Swedish film director, writer, editor and actor. He was born Bo Gunnar Widerberg in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He died in Ängelholm, Skåne län, Sweden of stomach cancer.
