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Roy Andersson

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82 Years Old

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

Born

Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden on 31st March 1943

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Bergman: A Year in a Life Image
Bergman: A Year in a Life
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Palme Image
Palme
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Bo Being Bo Widerberg Image
Bo Being Bo Widerberg
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Room 1112 Image
Room 1112
Året var 1970 Image
Året var 1970
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Being a Human Person Image
Being a Human Person
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Citizen Schein Image
Citizen Schein
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Life at Any Cost
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With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
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The Greatness of the Small Man Image
The Greatness of the Small Man
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På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
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The Andersson Brothers Image
The Andersson Brothers
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You Do the Best You Can Image
You Do the Best You Can
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Obsessions du deuxième étage
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Tomorrow's Another Day Image
Tomorrow's Another Day
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Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan!
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