Jan Troell

Jan Troell was born in Limhamn, in Malmö, in 1931. A schoolteacher by training, he made short films from the fifties onwards, some of them for the classroom, then left teaching in the mid-sixties. A cinematographer before he became a director, he remained the cinematographer and editor of his own films. His first feature film, in 1966, was hailed as a masterpiece, and the next received the Golden Bear in Berlin. He also worked in the United States in the seventies, and continued directing until 2012, at over eighty.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe EmigrantsUtvandrarnaJan Troell · 1971Cinema