Roy Andersson

Roy Andersson

Born: March 31, 1943
in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
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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Movies for Roy Andersson...

The Andersson Brothers
Title: The Andersson Brothers
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 2024
Type: Movie
A tender portrayal of four stubborn brothers becomes a touching contemporary Swedish family chronicle about dreams, class, heritage, and how difficult it can be to connect with each other. The Andersson brothers grew up in a working-class home in Gothenburg. Roy became an internationally acclaimed filmmaker while Ronny ended up as a homeless man. Kjell became a documentary filmmaker, and Leif lives as a disability pensioner. Johanna Bernhardson makes her feature film debut with a story about how life can turn out so differently despite seemingly similar circumstances. Through the portrayal of her father Leif and her uncles – with alcohol as a common thread – she also tells a tale of inheritance that stretches generations backward (and forward) in time. At the same time, she tries to get the brothers to stop sulking and reunite – before it's too late.
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Being a Human Person
Title: Being a Human Person
Character: Self
Released: October 16, 2020
Type: Movie
At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy's work - vulnerability, insecurity and mortality - spill over into his creative process.
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
Title: Bergman: A Year in a Life
Character: Self
Released: July 12, 2018
Type: Movie
A focuses on 1957, one of the most prolific years for the Swedish director. During the year he shot two films, opened two of his most celebrated films (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
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Citizen Schein
Title: Citizen Schein
Character: Himself
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.
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Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan!
Title: Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan!
Character: Himself
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
A documentary about Roy Andersson.
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Tomorrow's Another Day
Title: Tomorrow's Another Day
Character: Himself
Released: May 26, 2011
Type: Movie
2011 documentary about Swedish film director Roy Andersson and his unique way of making films. Shot during the four-year-long filming Andersson's 2007 film You, the Living, the documentary is a personal description of a surprising and different approach to the creative process. Roy Andersson has invented a working method of his own in order to achieve control over the work in process, but he is ultimately dependent on his young co-workers.
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På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
Title: På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
Character: Himself
Released: January 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Gothenburg Film Festival's new honorary chairman Roy Andersson talks about the adversities after the film "Giliap", revealing that he does not always think it's so much fun. A backlash can instead be a boost for creativity.
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With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
Title: With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man on the Roof, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew
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You Do the Best You Can
Title: You Do the Best You Can
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Follows Roy Andersson around different film festivals as he tries to launch his new film "Songs from the Second Floor" mixed with interviews with family members and colleagues.
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The Greatness of the Small Man
Title: The Greatness of the Small Man
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 2000
Type: Movie
Documentary depicting Swedish director Roy Andersson in how he transforms his thoughts about the prevailing social climate, evil and superstition to fictional film.
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Obsessions du deuxième étage
Title: Obsessions du deuxième étage
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A portrait of the Swedish director Roy Andersson, dealing with obsessions of the film maker considered as the origins of his last incredible project : Songs from the Second Floor. 20 years of reflection and creation, 4 years to shoot a masterpiece with a unique way of filming. A meeting with the Nordic Kubrick, rebel with a cause : responsibility and humanity.
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Liv till varje pris
Title: Liv till varje pris
Character: Himself
Released: August 20, 1998
Type: Movie
A documentary about acclaimed Swedish film director Bo Widerberg.