FILM DIRECTOR

Jörn Donner

1933 - 2020

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Jörn Johan Donner (5 February 1933 – 30 January 2020) was a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician and founder of Finnish Film Archive. He produced Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander, which won four Academy Awards in 1984. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jörn Donner has received more than 125,144 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jörn Donner is the 486th most popular film director (up from 610th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Finland (up from 122nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Finnish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jörn Donner ranks 486 out of 2,041. Before her are Edward Zwick, George P. Cosmatos, Juraj Jakubisko, Fernando Meirelles, Elio Petri, and Renny Harlin. After her are Jim Abrahams, Louis Delluc, Grigori Aleksandrov, John Waters, Curtis Hanson, and Alf Sjöberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jörn Donner ranks 164. Before her are Ludovico Scarfiotti, Nicola Pietrangeli, Gregory III Laham, Asha Bhosle, Michel Sabbah, and Debra Paget. After her are Françoise Fabian, Guido Crepax, Donald E. Westlake, Will Sampson, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, and Egil Danielsen. Among people deceased in 2020, Jörn Donner ranks 167. Before her are Jack Welch, Stuart Whitman, Olof Thunberg, Robert Conrad, Christophe, and Jackie Stallone. After her are Winston Groom, Rolf Hochhuth, Armando Manzanero, Nur Hassan Hussein, Zizi Jeanmaire, and Bill Gates Sr..

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Jörn Donner ranks 104 out of 751. Before her are Arvid Horn (1664), Väinö Tanner (1881), Fredrika Bremer (1801), Mauritz Stiller (1883), Alexander von Nordmann (1803), and Renny Harlin (1959). After her are Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Karl-August Fagerholm (1901), Oskar Merikanto (1868), Mika Salo (1966), Matti Vanhanen (1955), and Anders Chydenius (1729).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Finland

Among film directors born in Finland, Jörn Donner ranks 5. Before her are Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Mika Kaurismäki (1955), Mauritz Stiller (1883), and Renny Harlin (1959). After her are Edvin Laine (1905), and Matti Kassila (1924).

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Filmography

The Interrogation
Director
Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.
Sep 25o 20096.2 / 10
Black on White
Director
Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family.
Mar 15o 19685.2 / 10
Fuck Off! Images from Finland
Director
F*** Off! shows no false respect towards the authorities in its impudent and candid reportage of the developing country/welfare state Finland. It is a cinematic parallel to Donner's New Book of Our Land (1967). The travelogue focuses especially on Finland's outsiders, low-paid workers and the unemployed. In desolate provinces, the inhabitants of a cold and barren country either humbly abide their fate, choose to move to Sweden or take refuge in excessive drinking. These images are accompanied by protest songs based on Donner's own prose and the lyrics of poet Jarkko Laine. Perkele is embodied in big business and the political elite.The jagged (anti)aesthetics of the film correspond to the underground movement and the radical politics of the time. The camera agilely penetrates everyday life. Though opposed to censorship, Fuck Off! itself transgresses the boundaries of privacy.
Mar 19o 19715.917 / 10