Alf Sjöberg

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg 21 June 1903 Stockholm 17 April 1980 was a Swedish theatre and film director He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice in 1946 for Iris and the Lieutenant Swedish Iris och löjtnantshjärta part of an elevenway tie and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie Swedish Fröken Julie1 an adaption of the August Strindbergs play which tied with Vittorio De Sicas Miracle in Milan Despite his success with films Torment 1944 and Miss Julie Sjöberg was above all and foremost a stage director perhaps the greatest at Dramaten alongside first Olof Molander and later Ingmar Bergman He was a First Director of Swedens Royal Dramatic Theatre in the years 19301980 where he staged a large number of remarkable and historic productions Sjöberg was also a pioneer director for early Swedish TV theatre his 1955 TV theatre production of Hamlet is a national milestone Sjöberg died in a car accident on his way to rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm Description above from the Wikipedia article Alf Sjöberg licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia