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Roy Andersson

Film Director / Screenwriter / Writer / Film Producer | * 03/31/1943 (81) | Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län (Sweden)
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) 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. His other n... ()
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Roy Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for his films A Swedish Love Story (1970) and Songs from the Second Floor (2000). More than any other, Songs from the Second Floor succeeded in cementing his personal style – a style characterized by long takes, absurdist comedy, stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and Felliniesque grotesque. He has spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films, but only directing four feature-length films in three decades.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Comedies

Known for these Movies & Shows

A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many character ...

Songs from the Second Floor

Certification unknown

2000 | 3.6/5 | 1h 38min
Drama, Comedy
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The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about e ...

A Swedish Love Story

Certification unknown

1970 | 3.5/5 | 1h 55min
Drama, Romance / Love
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In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A ...

You, the Living

NR

2007 | 3.5/5 | 1h 35min
Drama, Comedy, Music
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An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man. ...

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

PG-13

2014 | 3.4/5 | 1h 40min
Drama, Comedy
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Awards & Nominations for Roy Andersson

Litteris et Artibus Stig Dagerman Prize Lenin Award (Sweden) Honorary Doctor of The University of Gothenburg European Film Award for Best Comedy Nordic Council Film Prize 2x European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Comedy European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award for Best Screenwriter European Film Academy Lux Award
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Movies with Roy Andersson as Actor(5)

as himself2020 Being a Human Person
as himself2018 Bergman: A Year in a Life
as himself2017 Citizen Schein
as himself2011 Tomorrow's Another Day
as himself1998 Liv till varje pris

Movies with Roy Andersson as Crew(34)

Directing/Director2023 Lotto - Familjen
Directing/Director2019 About Endlessness
Editing/Editor2019 About Endlessness
Writing/Screenplay2019 About Endlessness
Directing/Director2014 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Writing/Screenplay2014 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Directing/Director2007 You, the Living
Writing/Screenplay2007 You, the Living
Directing/Director2000 Songs from the Second Floor
Editing/Editor2000 Songs from the Second Floor
Production/Producer2000 Songs from the Second Floor
Writing/Screenplay2000 Songs from the Second Floor
Directing/Director1991 World of Glory
Writing/Screenplay1991 World of Glory
Directing/Director1987 Something Has Happened
Editing/Editor1987 Something Has Happened
Writing/Writer1987 Something Has Happened
Directing/Director1985 Why Should We Care About Each Other
Directing/Director1979 Så fruktansvärt onödigt
Production/Producer1979 Så fruktansvärt onödigt
Directing/Director1975 Giliap
Editing/Editor1975 Giliap
Writing/Writer1975 Giliap
Directing/Director1970 A Swedish Love Story
Writing/Writer1970 A Swedish Love Story
Directing/Director1969 Saturday October 5th
Editing/Editor1969 Saturday October 5th
Writing/Writer1969 Saturday October 5th
Directing/Assistant Director1969 Adalen 31
Directing/Director1968 To Fetch a Bike
Writing/Writer1968 To Fetch a Bike
Camera/Director of Photography1968 The White Match
Directing/Director1968 The White Match
Directing/Director1967 Visiting One's Son

Full Name: Roy Andersson
Citizenship: Sweden
Born: Wednesday, 03/31 1943 (March) in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län (Sweden) (current age: 81 years + 19 days)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: Swedish (SV)
Educated at: Lund University
Other names for Roy Andersson (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"로이 앤더슨"
"Roy Arne Lennart Andersson"
"Roy Andersson (Regisseur)"
Roy Andersson frequently works together with these people:
Kalle Boman (8x, Crew)
Johan Carlsson (6x, Crew)
István Borbás (5x, Crew)
Bo Widerberg (4x, Crew)
Robert Hefter (4x, Crew)
Göran Holm (3x, Actor)
Klas-Gösta Olsson (3x, Cast)
Pernilla Sandström (3x, Crew)
Jörgen Persson (3x, Crew)
Anders Hellström (3x, Cast)
Benny Andersson (2x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:240250, Added: 08/06/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024