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Roy Andersson
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is char…
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Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival. Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). Anderson received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. He other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019). Imdb Mini Bio By ; yusufpiskin
Filmography
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2025
Being Bo Widerberg
Movie Self
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2024
The Andersson Brothers
Movie Self
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2023
Roy Andersson's People
Movie Self
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2021
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Movie Thanks
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2020
Being a Human Person
Movie Self
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2020
Året var 1970
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
About Endlessness
Movie Screenplay
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2018
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Movie Self
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2017
Citizen Schein
Movie Self
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2014
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Movie Director
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2012
Palme
Movie Self
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2012
Live, Human... as Long as You Possibly Can!
Movie Himself
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2012
Room 1112
Movie
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2011
Tomorrow's Another Day
Movie Himself
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2009
På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
Movie Himself
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2009
5 x Roy Andersson
Movie Director
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2007
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
Movie Director
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2007
You, the Living
Movie Director
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2006
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
Movie Director
- 2004
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2001
You Do the Best You Can
Movie Self
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2000
The Greatness of the Small Man
Movie Self
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2000
Songs from the Second Floor
Movie Director
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2000
Obsessions from the Second Floor
Movie Self
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1998
Life at Any Cost
Movie Himself
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1991
World of Glory
Movie Director
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1987
Something Has Happened
Movie Editor
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1985
Jonny Roova
Movie Producer
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1979
So Terribly Unnecessary
Movie Director
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1975
Giliap
Movie Director
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1970
A Swedish Love Story
Movie Director
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1969
Saturday October 5th
Movie Director
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1969
Adalen 31
Movie Assistant Director
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1968
The White Game
Movie Director of Photography
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1968
To Fetch a Bike
Movie Writer
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1967
Visiting One's Son
Movie Director
