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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.
May 13, 2001 · Arne Sucksdorff, a filmmaker and wildlife specialist who became the first Swede to win an Oscar with a documentary about his hometown, Stockholm, died on May 4. He was 84.
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.
Directed by Arne Sucksdorff | 77 mins | 1953 Hailed “a masterpiece” by The New York Times when it opened at the Paris in 1955, this rhapsody of a film centers around life on a Swedish farm in the north of the country, with Sucksdorff himself portraying the farmer and his son as one of the boys wh...
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.
Having had the intention of making a film in Brazil from the beginning, in 1965 and 1966 Sucksdorff made Fábula (titled My Home is Copacabana in the English and Swedish versions). An 88-minute-long black-and-white film, it tells the story of four children living between the hillside slums of Babylônia and the beaches of Copacabana.
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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.
