Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson ( born April 1, 1965 in Lidingö ) is a Swedish film director.
Biography
Alfredson, son of Swedish comedian Hans Alfredson and younger brother of Daniel Alfredson, worked as a television director since the late 1980s. So he turned 1994, the first eight episodes of the twelve -part television series Bert after the children's book series by Anders Jacobsson Bert's disasters and Sören Olsson and the following year under the title Bert - the siste oskulden a movie sequel.
In 2000, the television series Soldater i månsken and 2003, his second feature film Kontorstid followed. He also had Walter Söderlund as the root director ( and co- screenwriter ) of the popular Swedish comedy troupe Killinggänget the comedian Henrik Schyffert, Johan Rheborg and Robert Gustafsson replaced in 1999; from this collaboration works include the 1999 television series Fyra små filmer, 2002, the short film collection cum Haren and 2004 Killinggängets first feature film, the three-hour Fyra nyanser av brunt. For this film, Alfredson won the 2005 most important Swedish Film Award Guldbagge for Best Director.
His international breakthrough had Alfredson in 2008 with his fourth feature film, the dark vampire story Let the Right (LAT in the rätte comma ) based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The film earned him another Guldbagge for Best Director, as well as awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Online Film Critics Society and the Toronto Film Critics Association. In addition, the film received major awards at various film festivals, in Sitges and at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was nominated for the European Film Awards 2009.
His next feature film, the John le Carré adaptation Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ) with Gary Oldman in the lead role of MI6 agent George Smiley, who was nominated for an Oscar received, 2011, an invitation to compete in the 68th International Film Festival of Venice. In Germany the film was released in theaters on February 2, 2012.