Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

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Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (born March 2, 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He started out as a popular musician in Denmark. He attended film school in Prague and returned to Denmark where he has directed and co-written television productions. One of the inventors of the avant-garde film making project dogme95. Lives in copenhagen with his wife and two children.

He made his first feature film in 1978, Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?. 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), Island on Bird Street (1997), his international break-through dogme #3 Mifune's Last Song (1999), and Skagerrak (2003). Besides he has done some commercials and Danish/Swedish tv-series.

Acclaimed internationally, his renown is embellished with a number of prestigious awards including the Memorial François Truffaut Award/Giffoni, an emmy for "the island on birdstreet" and a silverbear at the Berlinale fim festival in Berlin for "Mifune's last song".da:Søren Kragh-Jacobsen de:Søren Kragh-Jacobsen ja:ソーレン・クラーク＝ヤコブセン sv:Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

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