Bjarne Henning-Jensen

Bjarne Henning-Jensen was born in 1908. A stage actor in the thirties, he married the actress Astrid Schmahl in 1938, who immediately became his assistant and then his co-director. He came to cinema through the information documentary on the British model in the early forties, moved to fiction with her in 1943 and formed with her a couple of filmmakers committed to realism and the world of childhood, regarded as a pioneer of the Danish children's film. He died in 1995.

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• CinemaDitte, Child of ManDitte MenneskebarnBjarne Henning-Jensen · 1946Cinema