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Arne Edvard Sucksdorff (3 February 1917 – 4 May 2001) was a Swedish film director, considered one of cinema's greatest documentary filmmakers. He was particularly celebrated for his visually poetic and scenic nature documentaries.
Jul 17, 2012 · The “nature” documentary was nothing new, but the Swede Arne Sucksdorff (1917–2001) did bring a personal vision to his films unlike that of Flaherty or others. His films were lyrical, but he was willing to expose the cruelty of the natural world.
Arne Edvard Sucksdorff (3 February 1917, – 4 May 2001) was a Swedish film director, considered one of cinema's greatest documentary filmmakers. He was particularly celebrated for his visually poetic and scenic nature documentaries.
May 9, 2001 · Arne Sucksdorff, 84, a cinematographer, writer, director and actor in documentaries who became the first Swedish filmmaker to win an Academy Award, died Friday in Stockholm of pneumonia.
Aug 6, 2021 · He died in Stockholm in 2001. Further Reading: L. G. Andersson, J. Sundholm,and A. Söderbergh Widding, A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture (Stockholm: National Library, 2010).
- Lars Gustaf Andersson
By the early 1960s, however, Faustman had died and Ekman had retired; Sucksdorff, lacking financing for his projects, had moved abroad; and Sjöberg was working mostly in the theater.
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Arne Sucksdorff is, without doubt, Sweden’s greatest documentary filmmaker. From the 1940s until the 1960s, his films found great success the world over. He created a new personalised genre that fell between fiction and documentary, often with animals, nature and children at its heart.
