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Filmmaker · Sweden

Arne Sucksdorff

Died in 2001

Arne Sucksdorff was born in Stockholm on 3 February 1917. In the forties he made some fifteen short films, mostly on nature and wildlife; one of them, devoted to Stockholm, was the first Swedish film to receive an Oscar, and the first Oscar ever given to a short film. After a feature film that was poorly received in 1961, he left for Rio de Janeiro, where in 1962 he directed a film school organised by UNESCO, then stayed on and filmed the children of the favelas. He received a Guldbagge in 1994 for his body of work and died in Stockholm on 4 May 2001.

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