Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Harald August Molander ( born November 18, 1888 in Helsinki, † 19 June 1973 in Stockholm) was a Swedish director and screenwriter.
Life
Gustaf Molander in 1888 was the son of the director and writer Harald Molander ( 1858-1900 ) and the Swedish actress Lydia Wessler born in Helsinki, Finland. Where his father worked at the Swedish Theatre. His brother Olof Molander came in 1892 to the world.
In 1907 he came Dramatic Theatre ( Dramaten ) in Stockholm at the drama school of the Swedish National Theatre Royal. Two years later he returned as an actor to Helsinki to the Swedish theater. In 1910 he married the Swedish actress Karin Edwertz. The marriage lasted but only until 1918 1913 preferred him back to Sweden, where he was again active Dramatan to 1926 -. Acting and in his last years there ( from 1921) as head of the drama school. Among his students was the Swedish film legend Greta Garbo.
His first screenplay, written under the pseudonym Harald as Harald, Thomas Grail bästa movie was filmed in 1917 by Mauritz Stiller. In 1919 he married Elsa Fahl mountain. In Stockholm in 1929, their son Jan Molander was born, who later became a director and actor.
Molander continued to write screenplays, among others, for the two Swedish directors Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström, which he started at Svensk Industri film ( SF), Sweden's largest film production company allowed. From 1920 Molander worked as a director for the SF and led to 1956 at 62 theater productions. His directorial debut was in 1920 with Bodakungen.
In many of his films Gosta Ekman played with, also in 1936 in Intermezzo on the side of Ingrid Bergman, who managed their international breakthrough with this film, and even in 1939 turned a Hollywood remake of the film in the U.S..
Molander was a co-founder of the Swedish film. In 1943 he turned Ordet, a film that is often cited as his most important work. When he died in 1973, he was already almost completely deaf.
Filmography (selection)
For the following productions Molander wrote the screenplay and / or directed. In parentheses, if any, of each German or international (Int. ) title.