Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

Known for DirectingBorn 1947-03-02 (age 79)Copenhagen, Denmark

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Den korsikanske biskopen

Borgen

Thunderbirds

Ude på noget

Dansk films bedste

The Island on Bird Street

The Purified

Mifune

Follow the Money

The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey

Emma's Shadow

Life Is a Good Reason

Sweet Dreams

The Boys from St. Petri

The Butterfly Swing

Hugo, the Jungle Creature

The Idiots Who Started The Party

The Protectors

Rubber Tarzan

Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?

Shower of Gold

The Hour of the Lynx

What No One Knows

D-Day

The Name of This Film Is Dogme95

My Granny's House

Tænkepauser

Guldregn

Dogma 95, a Serious Game?