Gunnar Sommerfeldt
Actor, Film director
1890 – 1947
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Who was Gunnar Sommerfeldt?
Gunnar Sommerfeldt was a Danish actor and film maker.
In 1919 he directed Saga Borgarættarinnar, the first feature film shot in Iceland. Sommerfeldt also wrote the script, based on Gunnar Gunnarsson's novel by that name. He made his last feature film in 1921, an adaption of Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil which received the Nobel prize in Literature the year before.
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- Born
- Sep 4, 1890
Denmark - Nationality
- Denmark
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 30, 1947
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on July 23, 2013
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