Name
Roy Andersson
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1943-03-31 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Biography
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).
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Known For
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In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti pr...
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A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guide...
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The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their ...
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An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightm...
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In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of...
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The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he sh...
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A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swed...
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As the AIDS epidemic was spreading in 1987, the Swedish government commissioned Roy Anders...
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The narrative portrays a plain man who guides the viewer through his life in a bleakly sty...
- 2018 Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
- 2001 You Do the Best You Can as Self
- 2000 Obsessions from the Second Floor as Self
- 2000 The Greatness of the Small Man as Self
- 1998 Life at Any Cost as Himself
- 2004 With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof as Self
- 2011 Tomorrow's Another Day as Himself
- 2012 Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan! as Himself
- 2024 The Andersson Brothers as Self
- 2012 Room 1112
- 2017 Citizen Schein as Self
- 2009 På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson as Himself
- 2020 Being a Human Person as Self
- 2020 Året var 1970 as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 Palme as Self
- 2025 Being Bo Widerberg as Self
- 2023 Roy Andersson's People as Self
