Arne Sucksdorff

Arne Sucksdorff ( pronunciation: [ ˌ ɑ ː ɳə sɵk sdɔrf ː ], born February 3, 1917 in Stockholm, † May 4, 2001 ) was a Swedish photographer, documentary filmmaker, director and screenwriter.

Life and work

Sucksdorff studied photography in Berlin and received his education after several prizes in competitions. In 1938 he joined the film. In 1948 he won the first Swedish director an Oscar with his documentary "People in the city" ( Människor i stad ). His 1953 published the first full-length documentary "The Great Adventure " (Det stora äventyret ) received the silver medal at the International Film Festival of Berlin in 1954 and was nominated in the same year for the Golden Palm in Cannes. Around 1965, he moved to Brazil for some time and turned there several successful films. For his film Mitt hem är Cobacabana from the same year Sucksdorff received a Guldbagge.

As an author and photographer of the 1976 Publisher Oetinger (Hamburg) published children's book " The Magnifying Glass " he relates in large-format pictures and macro shots, the story of a boy named Kalle who learns a lot about animals and plants in the forest and in the meadow using a magnifying glass.

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