Marianne Ahrne
Siv Marianne Ahrne (born 25 May 1940) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films between 1970 and 1997. Her 1976 film Långt borta och nära won the award for Best Director at the 13th Guldbagge Awards.
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- Born
- 1940 · Lund.
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- writer · university teacher · screenwriter · film editor · literary critic · film critic · director
- Fields
- literature · drama · film direction · literary criticism
- Education
- Lund University
- Honours
- Guldbagge Award for Best Director
- Languages
- Swedish
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Siv Marianne Ahrne (born 25 May 1940) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films between 1970 and 1997. Her 1976 film Långt borta och nära won the award for Best Director at the 13th Guldbagge Awards.
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Selected filmography
Her 1978 film Frihetens murar was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. According to film historian Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Ahrne was one of the first women to make documentary films in Sweden, and Foster noted that Ahrne's films have received little attention in the United States.
Marianne Ahrne studied at Lund University. The recorded working language is Swedish. The field of work recorded is literature, drama and film direction. Employment is recorded with Umeå University and Svenska Dagbladet. Distinctions recorded are Guldbagge Award for Best Director.
Långt borta och nära (1976) Frihetens murar (1979) Flickan vid stenbänken (1989)
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scholarly publication
- Interview with Marianne Ahrne, director of PROMENADE AU PAYS DE LA VIEILLESSE (12 May 2001, Stockholm), Age Rage and Going Gently, 2006
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- “Marianne Ahrne”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Långt borta och nära (1976). The Swedish Film Database.
- 2.11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979). MIFF.
- 3.Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, 1995, Greenwood Press, Westport (CT) & London, Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary, Retrieved 15 December 2014, see page(s): 3
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