Personal Info
Known For:
Directing
Birthday:
March 31, 1943
Place of Birth:
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
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Roy Andersson
Biography
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival.
Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). Anderson received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. He other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Bo Being Bo Widerberg | Self |
| 2024 | The Andersson Brothers | Self |
| 2020 | Being a Human Person | Self |
| 2020 | Året var 1970 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Bergman: A Year in a Life | Self |
| 2017 | Citizen Schein | Self |
| 2012 | Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan! | Himself |
| 2012 | Room 1112 | |
| 2012 | Palme | Self |
| 2011 | Tomorrow's Another Day | Himself |
| 2009 | På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson | Himself |
| 2004 | With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof | Self |
| 2001 | You Do the Best You Can | Self |
| 2000 | Obsessions du deuxième étage | Self |
| 2000 | The Greatness of the Small Man | Self |
| 1998 | Life at Any Cost | Himself |
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