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Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg (21 June 1903, Stockholm – 17 April 1980) was a Swedish theatre and film director. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for Iris and the Lieutenant (Swedish: Iris och löjtnantshjärta) (part of an eleven-way tie), and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) (an adaption of the August Strindberg's play which tied with Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan).
Despite his success with films Torment (1944) and Miss Julie, Sjöberg was above all, and foremost, a stage director; perhaps the greatest at Dramaten (alongside, first, Olof Molander and, later, Ingmar Bergman). He was a First Director of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre in the years 1930-1980, where he staged a large number of remarkable and historic productions. Sjöberg was also a pioneer director for early Swedish TV theatre (his 1955 TV theatre production of Hamlet is a national milestone).
Sjöberg died in a car accident on his way to rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.
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Filmography
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Movies 23
Director 19
Dagerman (1989)
The Father (1969)
The Island (1966)
The Judge (1960)
Last Pair Out (1956)
Vildfåglar (1955)
Karin Månsdotter (1954)
Barabbas (1953)
Miss Julie (1951)
Only a Mother (1949)
Den gamla goda tiden (1946)
Iris and the Lieutenant (1946)
Three Dances (1946)
Resan bort (1945)
Torment (1944)
Kungajakt (1944)
The Heavenly Play (1942)
Hem från Babylon (1941)
Den blomstertid... (1940)
They Staked Their Lives (1940)
The Strongest (1929)
Ådalen's poetry (1928)
The Ingmar Inheritance (1925)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1903-06-21
Deathday1980-04-17 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceHedvig Eleonora parish, Sweden
CitizenshipsSweden
AwardsSwedish Academy's Theatre Award, Palme d'Or
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