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Jan Troell
BornJuly 23 1931 (1931--) (age 76)
Limhamn, Malmö, Sweden
Spouse(s)Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell


Jan Troell (born July 23 1931 in Limhamn outside Malmö, Sweden) is a Swedish film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography. His realistic films with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg.

For several years, Troell worked as an elementary-school teacher but started to make shorts in the sixties. He became director of photography for Widerberg but soon made a debut with his own first feature, This Is Your Life (Här har du ditt liv, 1966), about a working class boy in Sweden, set in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was based upon an autobiographical novel by Eyvind Johnson. His 1968 film Ole dole doff won the Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival.

Troell's major work in the 1970s became The Emigrants (Utvandrarna, 1971) and its sequel The New Land (Nybyggarna, 1972), two epic films about some peasants emigrating from the barren Swedish countryside to America in the 19th century. Once again, Troell films were based upon the novels of a Swedish working-class author, in this case Vilhelm Moberg. As in many of Troell's films, Max von Sydow plays one of the major roles. The Emigrants was nominated for several Academy Awards.

After a brief and unsuccessful sojourn in Hollywood, which resulted in the films Zandy's Bride (1974), starring Gene Hackman, and Hurricane (1979), Troell made The Flight of the Eagle (Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd, 1982). It is a film about S. A. Andrée's disastrous Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. The Flight of the Eagle was nominated for the Academy Awards (foreign language film).

The release of Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem (Il Capitano, 1991) became controversial since the film is based upon a true story; the brutal murder of a Swedish family just a few years earlier (see Juha Valjakkala). Yet, it concentrates on the psychological power game between the murderer and his girlfriend rather than the violence of the crime. It was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

Troell has also made documentaries, for instance Land of Dreams (Sagolandet, 1988), dealing with modern society's alienation from nature and A Frozen Dream (En frusen dröm, 1997) in which he once again brings up Andrée's polar expedition.

Even in his seventies, Troell remains productive. His recent films include As White as in Snow (Så vit som en snö, 2001), based on the life of Swedish aviatrix Elsa Andersson, and his latest documentary Presence (Närvarande, 2003).

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Limhamn is, in administrative sense, the southern district of Malmö Municipality in Sweden. The name literally means "Lime harbour". Before 1915, Limhamn was (briefly) a town of its own.
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City of Malmö
Malmö stad
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Coat of arms
Motto: Från arbetarstad till kunskapsstad
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Motto
(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
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Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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The Academy Award for Best Director is one of the awards given to directors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Nominations are made by Academy members in the Directing branch, while the winners are chosen by the Academy
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The Emigrants can refer to:
  • The Emigrants (novels), four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg:
  • The Emigrants (Swedish novel) (1949)
  • Unto a Good Land

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Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, or short story but also sometimes another film).
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The Emigrants can refer to:
  • The Emigrants (novels), four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg:
  • The Emigrants (Swedish novel) (1949)
  • Unto a Good Land

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July 23 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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  • 1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1900s  1910s  1920s  - 1930s -  1940s  1950s  1960s
1928 1929 1930 - 1931 - 1932 1933 1934

Year 1931 (MCMXXXI
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Limhamn is, in administrative sense, the southern district of Malmö Municipality in Sweden. The name literally means "Lime harbour". Before 1915, Limhamn was (briefly) a town of its own.
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City of Malmö
Malmö stad
HSB Turning Torso in Malmö

Coat of arms
Motto: Från arbetarstad till kunskapsstad
(eng: From industrial city to knowledge city)
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Motto
(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" Â²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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Motto
(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" Â²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title is generally equivalent to director of photography
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Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman during production of Wild Strawberries (1957)
Birth name Ernst Ingmar Bergman
Born July 14 1918(1918--)
Uppsala, Sweden
Died
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Bo Widerberg

Birth name Bo Gunnar Widerberg
Born June 8, 1930
Malmö, Sweden
Died May 1, 1997
Ängelholm, Sweden

Children Johan Widerberg (b.
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Eyvind Johnson, (July 29, 1900 – August 25, 1976) was a Swedish author. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation:
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Berlin International Film Festival, also called the " Berlinale   (help info ) "
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The Emigrants can refer to:
  • The Emigrants (novels), four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg:
  • The Emigrants (Swedish novel) (1949)
  • Unto a Good Land

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Nybyggarna (English: The New Land) is a 1972 Swedish film written by Bengt Forslund and directed by Jan Troell. It stars Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann and Eddie Axberg.
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Vilhelm Moberg (August 20, 1898 - August 8, 1973) was a Swedish author and historian, most known for his series of four novels, The Emigrants.

Early life

Moberg was born in Småland, in southern Sweden of peasant and soldier stock.
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Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow at the 2006 San Sebastian International Film Festival
Birth name Max Carl Adolf von Sydow
Born March 10 1929 (1929--) (age 78)
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Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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Gene Hackman

Birth name Eugene Allen Hackman
Born January 30 1930 (1930--) (age 77)
San Bernardino, California, U.S.
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Salomon August Andrée, during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée (October 18, 1854–October 1897) was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who perished during a failed attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon, the S.
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S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. S. A. Andrée (1854–97),[1]
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Academy Award

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Country United States
First awarded May 16, 1929 to honor achievements of 1927/1928
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