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Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Director, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn March 2, 1947 (78 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Follow the money
  • The Island on Bird Street
  • The Eagle

Known For

  • Mifune
  • The Island on Bird Street
  • The Boys from St. Petri
  • Rubber Tarzan
  • Borgen
  • The Hour of the Lynx
  • What No One Knows
  • Skagerrak
  • The Eagle
  • Guldregn
  • Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?
  • Lille sommerfugl
  • Emma's Shadow
  • Follow the money
  • Thunderbirds
  • Guldregn
  • The Protectors (2009)
  • Ude på noget

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Filmography

2020
Lille sommerfugl · as Screenplay
2013
The Hour of the Lynx · as Screenplay
2008
What No One Knows · as Screenplay
2003
Skagerrak · as Screenplay
1999
1993
1991
1988
Emma's Shadow · as Screenplay
1987
Omsen Og Momsen (TV Series)
1984
Ude på noget (TV Series)
1984
1983
1981

2020
2007
Aftenshowet (TV Series) · as Self
2002
The Purified · as Himself
2000
2000
D-dag - Instruktørene · as Self (directing)
1996
Go' morgen Danmark (TV Series) · as Self

2022
Dansk films bedste (TV Series) · as Sig Selv
1986
Guldregn (TV Series) · as Fortæller

1993
1990
War of the Birds · as Composer
1990
Hjälten · as Production Designer
1984
My Granny's House · as Production Designer
1978

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