Henning Carlsen was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinema verite.
16 Facts About Henning Carlsen
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Henning Carlsen won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart.
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Henning Carlsen was born on 4 June 1927 in Aalborg, Denmark.
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In 1948, Henning Carlsen became an assistant director at Minerva Film where he received on-the-job training.
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Henning Carlsen worked at Minerva until 1953 when he shifted to Nordisk Film.
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Henning Carlsen began by writing and directing short documentaries and industry films, and with this background he flourished in the production of the cinema verite style.
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In 1962, Henning Carlsen continued in cinema verite style with his first feature film: the harsh social drama Dilemma, released as A World of Strangers in the UK due to a naming conflict.
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Henning Carlsen followed this effort with the 1966 drama Hunger based upon the autobiographical novel of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun.
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Henning Carlsen was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film.
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In 1967, Henning Carlsen returned to the same format of social realism he used in Sult with the drama We are All Demons, a story based upon a novel by Axel Sandemose.
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In 1986, Henning Carlsen filmed the international production Wolf at the Door starring Donald Sutherland.
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Since 1966, Henning Carlsen has been a teacher and member of the advisory council for the National Film School in Denmark.
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In 2006, Henning Carlsen was the recipient of the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen Film Festival.
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In 2012 Henning Carlsen received an honorary Robert Award for his body of work.
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Henning Carlsen released his film, Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes, adapted from the 2004 novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Henning Carlsen died at the age of 86 on 30 May 2014.