Henning CarlsenNationality:
Danish Birthdate:
06/04/1927 Birthplace:
Aalborg, Jutland, Denmark
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biography
The most important Danish filmmaker to emerge between the twilight of Carl Dreyer in the early 1960s and the dawning of Bille August and Lars Von Trier in the 80s, Henning Carlsen crafted a series of carefully detailed, often literary, character studies in the 60s, 70s and 80s which reflect his extensive background in documentary cinema.Involved with the Resistance effort as a teenager during WWII, Carlsen initially planned to become a doctor after the war's end but became entranced by the cinema and by the writings of Eisenstein and Pudovkin. He subsequently joined Minerva Film in 1948,
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1943
Left school at age 16 and became involved in the Danish Resistance during WWII; spent three months in Sweden as a refugee at one point
Planned to become a doctor after the war, after the model of his girlfriend's father
1948
Began working as assistant director at Minerva-Film; worked under noted documentarian Theodor Christensen
1949
Directed numerous shorts and several medium-length documentaries; directing debut (also writer; editor), "I formerlaere/Moulder's Apprentice"
1951
Feature co-directing debut (with Titus Vibe Muller), "Haakon VII--King of Norway in War and Peace"
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