Alf Sjöberg

Alf Sjöberg was born in Stockholm on 21 June 1903, the son of a building caretaker. A pupil at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's school from 1923 to 1925, in the same class as Greta Garbo, he was an actor there, then a stage director from 1930, and remained one until his death: he is regarded as one of the greatest Swedish stage directors of the century. He shot his first film in 1929, made no more before 1940, and won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1951 for an adaptation of Strindberg. He died in Stockholm on 17 April 1980, in a road accident, on his way to a rehearsal.

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• CinemaTormentHetsAlf Sjöberg · 1944Cinema