FILM DIRECTOR

Henning Carlsen

1927 - 2014

Photo of Henning Carlsen

Icon of person Henning Carlsen

Henning Carlsen (4 June 1927 – 30 May 2014) was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger (Sult) was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henning Carlsen has received more than 37,362 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Henning Carlsen is the 543rd most popular film director (up from 641st in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 320th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Danish Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 37k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Henning Carlsen ranks 543 out of 2,041. Before him are Paul W. S. Anderson, Hugh Hudson, Olivier Assayas, Dadasaheb Phalke, Wojciech Has, and Lindsay Anderson. After him are James Wan, Marcel L'Herbier, Kenneth Anger, Luigi Zampa, Ralph Bakshi, and László Benedek.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Henning Carlsen ranks 159. Before him are Patti Page, Paul Volcker, Albert Zafy, Romano Scarpa, Jack Cassidy, and Oleg Yefremov. After him are Marianne Fredriksson, Franciszek Macharski, Kenneth Anger, Per Oscarsson, Joan Segarra, and Megumu Tamura. Among people deceased in 2014, Henning Carlsen ranks 140. Before him are Donatas Banionis, Tatiana Samoilova, Ana María Matute, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Dezső Novák, and Gerd Albrecht. After him are Jean-Jacques Marcel, Julian Rotter, Leslie Manigat, Frans Brüggen, Reuven Feuerstein, and James R. Schlesinger.

Others Born in 1927

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2014

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Henning Carlsen ranks 269 out of 1,032. Before him are Princess Louise of Denmark (1875), Sophus Nielsen (1888), Holger Pedersen (1867), Princess Thyra of Denmark (1880), Karl Verner (1846), and Holger Drachmann (1846). After him are Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805), Lars Mikkelsen (1964), Kjeld Abell (1901), Margrethe Vestager (1968), Ernst Reuter (1889), and Frank Arnesen (1956).

Others born in Denmark

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Henning Carlsen ranks 7. Before him are Lars von Trier (1956), Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889), Bille August (1948), Gabriel Axel (1918), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), and Susanne Bier (1960). After him are Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Erik Balling (1924), Urban Gad (1879), Benjamin Christensen (1879), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), and Jørgen Leth (1937).

Danish born Film Directors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Filmography

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Director
To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. The madam finds him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who is selling her virginity to support her family. When he sees Delgadina sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.
Oct 13th 20116.5 / 10
Hunger
Director
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
Aug 19th 19667.4 / 10
The Wolf at the Door
Director
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.
Sep 5th 19865.2 / 10