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Bo Gunnar Widerberg ( Swedish: [ˈbuː ˈvîːdɛrbærj]; 8 June 1930 – 1 May 1997) was a Swedish film director, writer, editor and actor.
Bo Widerberg was born on 8 June 1930 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a director and writer, known for All Things Fair (1995), Adalen 31 (1969) and Joe Hill (1971).
Widerberg, at 37, has directed four other films, but this is the first to have success overseas. Within Sweden, he is considered the best of the young directors, but outside he has always had to labor in the shadow of Ingmar Bergman 's international reputation.
May 2, 1997 · Bo Widerberg, the lyrical, socially conscious Swedish director of the popular ''Elvira Madigan'' and three films nominated for Academy Awards, died on Thursday at a...
Dramatizing the struggles of ordinary people fighting to chart their own destiny, these four acclaimed, popular, and pivotal films from Widerberg’s most prolific period live and breathe with a rare vitality—and helped launch a new Swedish cinema.
May 1, 1997 · Bo Widerberg, (June 8, 1930 – May 1, 1997) was a Swedish film director, writer, editor and actor. He was born Bo Gunnar Widerberg in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He died in Ängelholm, Skåne län, Sweden of stomach cancer.
Bo Widerberg represents a model of cinema that contravenes that of his illustrious forebear and that delineated for the first time in Sweden’s national cinema the concerns of everyday people, a director who arguably thus influenced Moodyson, Andersson, et. al, more significantly than any of his fellow countrymen.
