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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 (1930-1997) was a Swedish director, writer and editor, known for his social realist films such as Adalen 31 and Joe Hill. He was married twice and had three children, and died of stomach cancer in 1997.
Bo Widerberg, a Swedish director, talks about his film "Elvira Madigan", based on a true story of a tragic love affair. He discusses his method of improvisation, his actors, his style and his influences.
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 was a Swedish film director, writer, editor and actor who made films such as Elvira Madigan and Ådalen 31. He won several awards and nominations for his social and political cinema, and criticized Ingmar Bergman's style.
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.
