Knud Leif Thomsen

Knud Leif Thomsen was born in Ballerup in 1924. Trained first as a theatre scene painter, he studied art and music in Copenhagen and then in Paris, and from 1952 worked for Nordisk as a screenwriter and director of short films. He made fourteen films between 1960 and 1975 and sat on the Berlin jury in 1967. In 1977 he stopped making films in protest against the socialist tendencies of Danish cultural life, settled in France and engaged in polemics in the Danish press. He died in France in 2003.

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• CinemaSchool for SuicideSelvmordsskolenKnud Leif Thomsen · 1964Cinema