Gunnar Sommerfeldt

Gunnar Sommerfeldt was born on 4 September 1890 in Copenhagen. He acted at the Aarhus theatre from 1911 to 1915, made his screen debut in 1914 at Nordisk Film and became one of the most prominent Danish actors. He moved into directing at the end of the 1910s; in 1921, in Norway, he adapted the novel that had just earned Knut Hamsun the Nobel Prize, in which he also took a part, and the same year brought an Andersen tale to the screen. He then turned to documentary. He died on 30 August 1947, a few days before his fifty-seventh birthday.

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• CinemaSons of the SoilSaga BorgarættarinnarGunnar Sommerfeldt · 1920Cinema