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Henning Carlsen is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Danois born on 4 june 1927 at Aalborg (Danemark)

Henning Carlsen

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Nationality Danemark
Birth 4 june 1927 at Aalborg (Danemark)
Death 30 may 2014 (at 86 years) at Copenhagen (Danemark)

Henning Carlsen (born 4 June 1927) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of Cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger (Sult) was nominated for the Palme D'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart. Acting as his own producer since 1960, Carlsen has directed more than 25 films, 19 for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2006, he received the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival.

Biography

Après avoir essayé d'embrasser une carrière de médecin, Henning Carlsen s'oriente vers le cinéma et devient l'assistant de Theodor Christensen, le fondateur du mouvement documentariste danois de l'après-guerre. Au cours des années cinquante, il participe essentiellement à la production de films publicitaires et de documentaires. En 1958, il réalise un documentaire sur une compagnie danoise fabriquant des chauffages en Afrique du Sud, où il peut observer le travail de Lionel Rogosin sur le film Come Back, Africa. Quatre ans plus tard, fait original et périlleux à la fois, il retourne dans ce pays pour y filmer clandestinement à Johannesburg, Dilemme (Dilemma), d'après un roman anti-apartheid de Nadine Gordimer, A World of Strangers. Ce film obtient le premier prix au festival cinématographique de Mannheim en 1962. Lorens Marmstedt, un producteur suédois indépendant, lui offre sa réelle première chance avec la réalisation à Stockholm de Chattes (Kattorna) en 1965. Mais, c'est surtout La Faim (Sult), adaptation du roman de Knut Hamsun (1966), qui demeure son film le plus connu et qui fut récompensé au Festival de Cannes 1966. En 1982, Henning Carlsen réalise un film largement autobiographique La Bourse ou la vie (Pengene eller livet).
"Il y a, dans le meilleur de l'œuvre de Carlsen, une singulière beauté plastique que vient rehausser une sympathie profonde pour tel ou tel être humain, dont le visage se dégage de la masse anonyme comme celui de ces hallucinés qu'on voit sur les gravures et les toiles d'un autre artiste scandinave, Edvard Munch", nous dit Peter Cowie, historien du cinéma nordique.

Henning Carlsen fut, de 1968 à 1981, directeur du prestigieux cinéma Dagmar Theatret à Copenhague, succédant à Carl Theodor Dreyer.

Usually with

Krzysztof Komeda
Krzysztof Komeda
(3 films)
Henning Kristiansen
Henning Kristiansen
(2 films)
Hans W. Petersen
Hans W. Petersen
(2 films)
Lise Fjeldstad
Lise Fjeldstad
(2 films)
Jørgen Skov
Jørgen Skov
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Henning Carlsen (9 films)

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Director

The Wolf at the Door
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
, 1h30
Directed by Henning Carlsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Peinture
Actors Donald Sutherland, Morten Grunwald, Sofie Gråbøl, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Ghita Nørby
Rating58% 2.9495352.9495352.9495352.9495352.949535
Ce film biographique est basé sur la vie du célèbre peintre français Paul Gauguin.
A Happy Divorce
A Happy Divorce (1975)
, 1h42
Directed by Henning Carlsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Actors Jean Rochefort, André Dussollier, Daniel Ceccaldi, Bulle Ogier, Bernadette Lafont, Anne-Lise Gabold
Rating54% 2.712412.712412.712412.712412.71241
Jean-Baptiste se remet difficilement du départ de sa femme qu'il revoit tous les week-ends avec son nouveau mari. Il héberge aussi un jeune homme qui a tenté de se suicider afin de lui redonner goût à la vie.
Hunger
Hunger (1966)
, 1h51
Directed by Henning Carlsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Actors Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel, Knud Rex, Hans W. Petersen, Henki Kolstad
Rating76% 3.84353.84353.84353.84353.8435
In 1890 Kristiania (Oslo), an impoverished and lonely writer named Pontus (Per Oscarsson) comes to the city from the country. He stands on a bridge, overlooking running water, writing but clearly starving. He visits a pawnbroker several times. He sells his waistcoat for a few cents, then gives the money to a beggar. Other money that falls into his hands he also gives away. He has written an article that a newspaper editor (Henki Kolstad) agrees to publish if he makes some corrections, but Pontus is too proud to accept an advance when offered, so he leaves elated but still hungry. He begs a bone for his dog, which he gnaws on secretly in an alley. He often has the chance to make things better for himself, but his pride gets in the way, such as when he declines the much-needed help of a worried friend.

Scriptwriter

The Wolf at the Door
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
, 1h30
Directed by Henning Carlsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Peinture
Actors Donald Sutherland, Morten Grunwald, Sofie Gråbøl, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Ghita Nørby
Roles Scenario Writer
Rating58% 2.9495352.9495352.9495352.9495352.949535
Ce film biographique est basé sur la vie du célèbre peintre français Paul Gauguin.
A Happy Divorce
A Happy Divorce (1975)
, 1h42
Directed by Henning Carlsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Actors Jean Rochefort, André Dussollier, Daniel Ceccaldi, Bulle Ogier, Bernadette Lafont, Anne-Lise Gabold
Roles Writer
Rating54% 2.712412.712412.712412.712412.71241
Jean-Baptiste se remet difficilement du départ de sa femme qu'il revoit tous les week-ends avec son nouveau mari. Il héberge aussi un jeune homme qui a tenté de se suicider afin de lui redonner goût à la vie.
Hunger
Hunger (1966)
, 1h51
Directed by Henning Carlsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Actors Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel, Knud Rex, Hans W. Petersen, Henki Kolstad
Roles Writer
Rating76% 3.84353.84353.84353.84353.8435
In 1890 Kristiania (Oslo), an impoverished and lonely writer named Pontus (Per Oscarsson) comes to the city from the country. He stands on a bridge, overlooking running water, writing but clearly starving. He visits a pawnbroker several times. He sells his waistcoat for a few cents, then gives the money to a beggar. Other money that falls into his hands he also gives away. He has written an article that a newspaper editor (Henki Kolstad) agrees to publish if he makes some corrections, but Pontus is too proud to accept an advance when offered, so he leaves elated but still hungry. He begs a bone for his dog, which he gnaws on secretly in an alley. He often has the chance to make things better for himself, but his pride gets in the way, such as when he declines the much-needed help of a worried friend.