Johan Kling
Johan Kling ( born August 7, 1962 in Stockholm; actually Carl- Johan Kling David ) is a Swedish film director, screenwriter and television producer.
Biography
Johan Kling was when Carl - Johan Kling David was born in Stockholm in 1962 and began his career as a musician. In 1980 he founded together with his friend Mauro Scocco the rock band Ratata that could record a success a year later with the summer hit Ett Ett. After the separation, and a broken political science, history and philosophy Kling began as an outsider in the Swedish television to take root, where he specialized in comedy and reality TV formats. He produced, among others, the mid-1990s the famous panel show Knesset, which was broadcast on the Swedish TV channel ZTV. He also directed and wrote the screenplay for the series Stockholmare ( 2001), which put the focus on the relationships and the career of young Swedish capital city, which joined other low-budget formats.
2003 Kling devoted himself with Jag his first short film, which was inspired by a conversation between two young girls snapped about shopping. In the 28 -minute production he put the amateur actress Michelle Meadows as narcissistic higher daughter Eva in scene. Four years later, after much effort Kling took his lead actress for the title role in his debut film Darling front of the camera. In the elegant and black-humored capital - life painting Meadows slipped again in the role of the style-conscious and arrogant Eva, who endured from her boyfriend and her mother and works more out of boredom. After she cheated on her partner and lost her mother financial aid, they must live in expensive restaurants and nightclubs exchange them for a job at McDonald's, where she makes a much older divorced, newly unemployed engineer (played by Michael Segerstrom ) the acquaintance.
Darling premiered in February 2007 at the Gothenburg Film Festival, where Kling was promptly awarded the grand prize. The production then became the great critic and public success that has been in Sweden understood as a kind of generation film of the 21st century and simultaneously compared with Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. A year later, Darling was with six nominations as favorite at the Guldbagge Award 2008, Sweden's most important film award. While lead actor Michael Segerstrom won the prize to Darling was beaten tragicomedy The latest storm surprising in the major categories Film, Director and Screenplay Roy Andersson. International critics gave it to the American industry magazine Variety, the lifted out the elegance of the film, the performance of its lead actress and the " proper direction ". The star pointed at the premiere of the film at the Hamburg Film Festival 2007 Kling's " trenchant views on the shoals of human behavior " towards which he had already demonstrated in his television series Stockholmare.
After the success of his first film prepares Kling 2009 his second feature film Trust Me before, again a comedy about a theater director. The Swede finds inspiration in his work, especially of literary works and counts Anton Chekhov or Flaubert to his favorite authors. He is also enthusiastic about the operation of Stanley Kubrick and is Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal among his favorite films. In 2007 he was listed on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Cannes from the Variety beside the German filmmaker Fatih Akın and the Iranian director Marjane Satrapi debut to the 60 "Faces for the festival future". 2010, the feature film Puss was built around several women who run an amateur theater in Stockholm. With the romantic comedy by Alexander Skarsgård, Gustaf Skarsgård, Michelle Meadows and Michael Kling Segerstrom but failed to match the success of his previous film. 2011 his script was Människor helt utan betydelse of Gustaf Skarsgård realized as a short film.
Johan Kling lives with his partner and their six year old son in Kungsholmen.
Filmography (selection)
- 2001: Stockholmare ( TV series)
- 2002: Spacer ( TV series)
- 2003: Jag ( short film )
- 2007: Darling
- 2010: Puss
Awards
- 2007: Nordic Film Award for Darling
- 2008: Greta ( price of the Swedish Film Critics ) for Darling
- 2008: Guldbagge nominations in the categories of Best Director and Best Screenplay for Darling