FILM DIRECTOR

Alf Sjöberg

1903 - 1980

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Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg (21 June 1903 – 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 Torment (Swedish: Hets) (part of an eleven-way tie), and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) (an adaptation of August Strindberg's play which tied with Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan). Despite his success with those films, Sjöberg was foremost a stage director, perhaps the greatest at the Royal Dramatic Theatre (alongside first Olof Molander and later Ingmar Bergman). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alf Sjöberg has received more than 76,838 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Alf Sjöberg is the 492nd most popular film director (down from 450th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 322nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swedish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alf Sjöberg ranks 492 out of 2,041. Before him are Jörn Donner, Jim Abrahams, Louis Delluc, Grigori Aleksandrov, John Waters, and Curtis Hanson. After him are Alexander Kluge, Richard Thorpe, Pierre Woodman, Abel Ferrara, Jean-Daniel Cadinot, and Jan Troell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Alf Sjöberg ranks 130. Before him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Amy Johnson, K. Kamaraj, Boris Blacher, Florence Owens Thompson, and Grigori Aleksandrov. After him are Nikolay Cherkasov, Abba P. Lerner, Ferenc Nagy, Cyril Jackson, Bertrand de Jouvenel, and Karl Fritzsch. Among people deceased in 1980, Alf Sjöberg ranks 112. Before him are Oskar Kummetz, Richard Chase, Yahya Khan, Luigi Longo, Edelmiro Julián Farrell, and Ernst Ocwirk. After him are Hiroshi Inagaki, Toyen, Sherm Clark, Franco Basaglia, Erich Hückel, and Barbara O'Neil.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Alf Sjöberg ranks 349 out of 1,879. Before him are Olof Thunberg (1925), Lennart Carleson (1928), Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (1549), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Evert Taube (1890), and Axel Ljung (1884). After him are Staffan de Mistura (1947), Jan Troell (1931), Lars Hörmander (1931), Tomas Brolin (1969), Maria Gripe (1923), and Ola Ullsten (1931).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Sweden

Among film directors born in Sweden, Alf Sjöberg ranks 7. Before him are Ingmar Bergman (1918), Lasse Hallström (1946), Victor Sjöström (1879), Roy Andersson (1943), Sven Nykvist (1922), and Bo Widerberg (1930). After him are Jan Troell (1931), Vilgot Sjöman (1924), Ruben Östlund (1974), Olle Hellbom (1925), Hasse Ekman (1915), and Mikael Håfström (1960).

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