Bille August

Bille August was born in Brede on 9 November 1948. Trained in photography in Stockholm, then a cinematographer at the Danish film school from 1971 to 1973, he worked as a cinematographer on films and television films before moving to directing in 1978, on his own screenplay. He first made films about childhood and adolescence, then, from the end of the eighties, large international productions, one of them from a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman. He is one of the few filmmakers to have received the Palme d'Or twice.

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• CinemaPelle the ConquerorPelle ErobrerenBille August · 1987Cinema