Alf Sjöberg

Alf Sjöberg
Drama elevskola 1922, from left to right Cederqvist Lena, Karl-Magnus Thulstrup, Mona Martensson, Mimi Pollak, Vera Schmiterlöw, Greta Garbo, Alf Sjöberg and Håkan Westergren
Born	21 June 1903(1903-06-21) Stockholm, Sweden
Died	17 April 1980(1980-04-17) (aged 76) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1925 - 1969

Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg (21 June 1903, Stockholm – 17 April 1980) was a Swedish theatre and film director. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for Iris and the Lieutenant (Swedish: Iris och löjtnantshjärta) (part of an eleven-way tie), and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) (an adaption of the August Strindberg's play which tied with Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan).

Despite his success with films Torment (1944) and Miss Julie, Sjöberg was above all, and foremost, a stage director; perhaps the greatest at Dramaten (alongside, first, Olof Molander and, later, Ingmar Bergman). He was a First Director of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre in the years 1930-1980, where he staged a large number of remarkable and historic productions. Sjöberg was also a pioneer director for early Swedish TV theatre (his 1955 TV theatre production of Hamlet is a national milestone).

Sjöberg died in a car accident on his way to rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

Filmography

Actor

• The Ingmar Inheritance (Ingemarsarvet) (1925)
• Ådalens poesi (1928)
• Resan Bort (1945)

Director

• Den starkaste (1929)
• They Staked Their Lives (Med livet som insats) (1940)
• Den blomstertid (1940)
• Hem från Babylon (1941)
• The Heavenly Play (Himlaspelet) (1942)
• Kungajakt (1944)
• Torment (Hets) (1944) From a synopsis by Ingmar Bergman, who served as assistant director. Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1947.
• Resan bort (1945)
• Iris and the Lieutenant (Iris och löjtnantshjärta) (1946) Shared the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival
• Only a Mother (Bara en mor) (1949)
• Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) (1951) Shared the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival
• Barabbas (1953)
• Karin Månsdotter (1954)
• Wild Birds (Vildfåglar) (1955)
• Last Pair Out (Sista paret ut) (1956)
• The Judge (Domaren) (1960)
• Ön (1966)
• The Father (Fadern) (1969)

Writer

• They Staked Their Lives (Med livet som insats) (1940)
• Den blomstertid (1940)
• Hem från Babylon (1941)
• Only a Mother (Bara en mor) (1949)
• The Heavenly Play (Himlaspelet) (1942)
• Resan bort (1945)
• Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) (1951)
• Karin Månsdotter (1954)
• Wild Birds (Vildfåglar) (1955)
• The Judge (Domaren) (1960)
• Ön (1966)

External links

• Alf Sjöberg at the Internet Movie Database
• Alf Sjöberg at the Swedish Film Database