Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1947 in Copenhagen
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Danish filmmaker Soren Kragh-Jacobsen studied engineering, then went to the Prague film school FAMU and specialized in documentaries. Kragh-Jacobsen worked for Danish Radio in 1972, where he was the head of children's programs from 1973-74 and the commissioning editor of youth programs for Danish...Read More

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What No One Knows

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anders W. Berthelsen, Maria Bonnevie, Ghita Nørby, Marie Louise Wille, Sarah Juel Werner

Synopsis: The sins of a father are visited upon the son who has discovered his secrets in this political thriller from director Soren Kragh-Jacobsen. Thomas Deleuran (Anders W. Berthelsen) is a puppeteer who makes his living performing for children. Ironically, Thomas had an unhappy childhood and isn't Read More

2008
Skagerrak

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bronagh Gallagher, Martin Henderson, Iben Hjejle, Ewen Bremner, Gary Lewis

Synopsis: Two female drifters search for their next short-term jobs and for the reasons their lives have been filled with such wanderlust in Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's modern-day romantic fable Skagerrak. Best friends Marie (Iben Hjejle) and Sophie (Bronagh Gallagher) land on the Scottish mainland after a stint Read More

2003
De Lutrede

Actors: Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring, Mogens Rukov

Synopsis: In 1995, speaking at a conference held to celebrate the 100th birthday of the cinema, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier gave a speech in which he decried the increased technical sophistication of filmmaking, which he believed had come at the expense of the art of storytelling. Von Trier declared Read More

2002
Mifune

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anders W. Berthelsen, Iben Hjejle, Jesper Asholt, Emil Tarding, Anders Hove, Sofie Gråbøl, Paprika Steen

Synopsis: Mifunes Sidste Sang is the third feature produced according to the Dogma 95 manifesto, ten strict rules drawn up by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. The title of the film refers to the late Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, who played a bogus samurai of peasant origins in Akira Kurosawa Read More

2/25/00
The Island on Bird Street

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Jordan Kiziuk, Jack Warden, James Bolam, Simon Gregor

Synopsis: A young boy learns a grownup's lesson in survival in this dramatic adventure. Alex (Jordan Kiziuk) is an 11-year-old boy who is living with his father Stefan (Patrick Bergin) and Uncle Boruch (Jack Warden) in a Jewish ghetto in Poland during WWII. While Alex has been able to hold onto some shards Read More

1997
Drengene Fra Sankt Petri

Crew: Director

Actors: Philip Zandén

Synopsis: In the true history this movie is based on, a group of Danish private-school boys got together during World War II and formed their own Resistance cell, which went under the name of "the Churchill Club." They operated in the provincial city of Aalborg and fought the German Nazis wherever and Read More

1991
Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tommy Kentner, Lisbeth Dahl, Emil Tarding

Synopsis: In this animated feature, intended mostly for the pleasure of children, some characters are far more bohemian than is customary in better known American and Japanese productions, which may give the adults who are sometimes dragooned into watching these things some unexpected pleasure. In the Read More

1990
Skyggen Af Emma

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Line Kruse, Börje Ahlstedt, Henrik Larsen, Inge Sofie Skovbo, Ulla Henningsen

Synopsis: Virtually unknown in English-speaking countries, Emma's Shadow was one of the most popular Danish films of the 1980s, and a winner of several awards in the bargain. Emma, an impulsive 11-year-old girl, is portrayed by Line Kruse. Tired of being neglected by her wealthy parents, Emma fakes her own Read More

1988
Guldregn

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ricki Rasmussen, Ken Vedsegaard, Tania Frydenberg, Nanna Bondergaard, Torben Jensen

Synopsis: If you think finding buried treasure in own your back yard is difficult, try looking in the rocky terrain of Denmark. That's just what the youthful protagonists of Guldregn attempt to do, effectively filling up 90 minutes' screen time in the process. Nothing comes easily, of course, and this Read More

1988
Gummi-Tarzan

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Schröder

Synopsis: Based on a book by the popular children's author Ole Lund Kirkegaard, this is a whimsical tale of Ivan (Alex Svanbjerg), a little boy who fails at athletics and lags in his reading skills, occasioning jeers and abuse from his classmates -- they call him the "rubber Tarzan" when he cannot lift Read More

1981
Vil du Se Min Smukke Navle?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This is a typically laid-back Scandinavian coming-of-age film about a school trip to the Swedish wilderness. Vil Du Se Min Smukke Navle? (Do You Want to See My Beautiful Navel?) is pleasant and nothing to get too excited about. There is the usual experimentation with the opposite sex, a couple Read More

1978