Gösta Werner

Gösta Werner ( born May 15, 1908 in Östra Vemmenhög, Skane, † July 23, 2009 in Stockholm) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, and film historian.

Life

After completing his studies in Lund Werner worked as a journalist in Stockholm and was a translator of foreign films. From 1938 he also wrote screenplays. 1945 Werner turned the short film midwinter sacrifice ( midvinterblot ), a formally experimental film. Attention has also its subsequent twenty minute film The train ( Tåget, 1947). His first feature film turned Werner 1948. His films road of sin ( Gatan, 1949) and Island of Desire ( Två trappor över gården, 1950) were well known abroad.

Gösta Werner's film studies work began in 1947 with the editing of the documentary Forty years with the King (40 år med effects ) through the reign of Gustav V. He published several works on the Swedish film, in particular Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström and his published in 1970 treatise on the history of the Swedish film ( German, 1988).

In the 1970s he worked as a professor at the University of Stockholm.

Filmography

Writings (selection )

• The history of the Swedish film. An Overview. Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-88799-022-6.
• James Joyce och Sergei Eisenstein. Två konstnärers möte ( = Småskrifter från the James Joyce Society of Sweden and Finland. Vol. 2). Ellerström, Lund, 1988, ISBN 91-970848-2-4.
• Hjalmar Bergman som filmförfattare ( = Skrifter utgivna av Hjalmar Bergman Samfundet. Vol. 1). Hjalmar Bergman Samfundet, Stockholm, 1987, ISBN 91-87434-00-8.
• Passion & svartsjuka i ett svunnet Stockholm ( = Höjerings Stockholmianaserie. Vol. 22). Höjering, Stockholm 1984, ISBN 91-970161-3-6.
• Mauritz Stiller och hans filmer. From 1912 to 1916. Norstedt, Stockholm 1969.
• Kameran går. Steinsvik, Stockholm 1944.