Roy Andersson
Also Known As: 로이 앤더슨, Roy Arne Lennart Andersson
Biography: Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival. Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). Anderson received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. He other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019). Imdb Mini Bio By ; yusufpiskin
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: March 31, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
Overview: The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-07-12
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You Do the Best You Can
Overview: Follows Roy Andersson around different film festivals as he tries to launch his new film "Songs from the Second Floor" mixed with interviews with family members and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-01-09
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Obsessions du deuxième étage
Overview: A portrait of the Swedish director Roy Andersson, dealing with obsessions of the film maker considered as the origins of his last incredible project : Songs from the Second Floor. 20 years of reflection and creation, 4 years to shoot a masterpiece with a unique way of filming. A meeting with the Nordic Kubrick, rebel with a cause : responsibility and humanity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Greatness of the Small Man
Overview: Documentary depicting Swedish director Roy Andersson in how he transforms his thoughts about the prevailing social climate, evil and superstition to fictional film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-10-14
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Life at Any Cost
Overview: A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-08-20
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With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
Overview: A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man on the Roof, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Tomorrow's Another Day
Overview: 2011 documentary about Swedish film director Roy Andersson and his unique way of making films. Shot during the four-year-long filming Andersson's 2007 film You, the Living, the documentary is a personal description of a surprising and different approach to the creative process. Roy Andersson has invented a working method of his own in order to achieve control over the work in process, but he is ultimately dependent on his young co-workers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-26
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Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan!
Overview: A documentary about Roy Andersson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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The Andersson Brothers
Overview: A tender portrayal of four stubborn brothers becomes a touching contemporary Swedish family chronicle about dreams, class, heritage, and the difficulty of connection. The Andersson brothers grew up in a working-class home in Gothenburg. Roy became an internationally acclaimed filmmaker while Ronny ended up as a homeless man. Kjell became a documentary filmmaker, and Leif lives as a disability pensioner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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Room 1112
Overview: In room 1112 at hotel Riverton during Göteborg's 2011 film festival, director Jonas Selberg Augustsén brings together some of Sweden's most famous film workers and asks a question: "Are the celluloid film about to die, and what do you think it means for the moving image?" The film is inspired by Wim Wender's 1982 documentary, Chambre 666.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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Citizen Schein
Overview: Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
Overview: Gothenburg Film Festival's new honorary chairman Roy Andersson talks about the adversities after the film "Giliap", revealing that he does not always think it's so much fun. A backlash can instead be a boost for creativity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-01-24
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Being a Human Person
Overview: At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy's work - vulnerability, insecurity and mortality - spill over into his creative process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-16
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Året var 1970
Overview: This is the year with a music party at Gärdet in Stockholm, and Lee Hazlewood and Nina Lizell wonder who can sail before the wind. The Vietnam War continues and the United States is bombing Cambodia. In Stockholm, police officers write in protest against poor conditions and the rockers take the chance to take over the town. During the "cannon race" on the Gellerås track, a fatal accident occurs. Director Roy Andersson's first feature film "En kärlekshistoria" is a must see.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2020-01-27
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Palme
Overview: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Bo Being Bo Widerberg
Overview: The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-06-11
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