Known For
Directing
Known Credits
6
Gender
Male
Birthday
March 2, 1947 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Copenhagen, Denmark
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (born 2 March 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques.
Kragh-Jacobsen started out as a popular musician in Denmark, before attending film school in Prague. After returning to Denmark, he directed and co-wrote television productions.
He became one of the developers of the avant-garde film-making project Dogme95, based on creating films based only on reality, without artificial lighting and technology.
His first feature film was Wanna See My Beautiful Navel? (1978). This was followed by the successful Rubber Tarzan (1981), Thunderbirds (1983), Emma's Shadow (1988), Shower of Gold (1988), The Boys from St. Petri (1991), The Island on Bird Street (1997), and his international break-through, dogme No. 3 Mifune's Last Song (1999), and Skagerrak (2003). Mifune's Last Song won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Skagerrak was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.
He has done some commercials and Danish/Swedish TV series.
Acclaimed internationally, he has received several major awards for his work, including the Memorial François Truffaut Award/Giffoni, an Emmy for The Island on Bird Street and a Silver Bear at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin for Mifune's Last Song. The Boys from St. Petri was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
| 2025 | Tænkepauser...Director | |
| 2020 | The Butterfly Swing...Director | |
| 2016 | Follow the Money...Director | |
| 2013 | The Hour of the Lynx...Director | |
| 2010 | Borgen...Director | |
| 2009 | The Protectors...Director | |
| 2008 | What No One Knows...Director | |
| 2004 | The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey...Director | |
| 2003 | Sweet Dreams...Director | |
| 2000 | D-Day...Director | |
| 1999 | Mifune...Director | |
| 1997 | The Island on Bird Street...Director | |
| 1993 | Den korsikanske biskopen...Director | |
| 1991 | The Boys from St. Petri...Director | |
| 1988 | Shower of Gold...Director | |
| 1988 | Emma's Shadow...Director | |
| 1985 | Life Is a Good Reason...Director | |
| 1983 | Thunderbirds...Director | |
| 1981 | Rubber Tarzan...Director | |
| 1978 | Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?...Director |
| 2020 | The Butterfly Swing...Screenplay | |
| 2013 | The Hour of the Lynx...Screenplay | |
| 2003 | Sweet Dreams...Screenplay | |
| 1999 | Mifune...Writer | |
| 1991 | The Boys from St. Petri...Writer | |
| 1988 | Emma's Shadow...Screenplay | |
| 1984 | Ude på noget...Writer | |
| 1984 | My Granny's House...Writer | |
| 1983 | Thunderbirds...Writer | |
| 1981 | Rubber Tarzan...Writer |
| 1993 | Hugo, the Jungle Creature...Songs |
| 2022 | Dansk films bedsteas Sig selv | |
| 2020 | The Idiots Who Started The Partyas Sig selv | |
| 2003 | The Purifiedas Himself | |
| 2001 | Guldregnas Fortæller | |
| 2000 | The Name of This Film Is Dogme95as Self | |
| 1999 | Dogma 95, a Serious Game?as Self |