Johan Kling

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Johan Kling
Born
Carl-David Johan Natt och Dag

(1962-08-07) 7 August 1962 (age 61)
Stockholm, Sweden
Occupations
  • Director
  • screenwriter
  • novelist

Johan Kling (born Carl-David Johan Natt och Dag, 7 August 1962,) is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, and novelist. His debut movie, Darling (2007), received numerous nominations and won several awards.

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Career

Kling started his career in the early 1980s as a musician in the pop group Ratata [1] and went on to make television commercials and direct TV shows. [2]

Film

Darling

His debut feature, Darling , which he wrote and directed, was released in 2007. The movie is based on a short film, Jag, made a few years earlier. Darling is "a dark comedy about morals and manners in Stockholm" and stars Michael Segerström and Michelle Meadows. The latter's performance was praised highly by Variety , which also gave acclaim to Kling's "smooth" direction. [3]

After winning the Best Film award, the "Nordic Film Prize", at the 2007 Gothenburg Film Festival, [4] Darling garnered almost every possible prize in Sweden. [5] At the 2007 Guldbagge Awards, Darling was nominated in six categories and won the awards for Best Male Actor and Best Cinematography. [6] The film was also awarded for Best Film of 2007 by the Swedish Association of Film Critics. [7]

Darling had its international premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in Spain, where it competed in the New Directors section. [8]

Trust Me

Kling announced in 2008 that his next film would be Trust Me , again starring Meadows and Segerström. [9]

Writing

Kling's first novel, Människor helt utan betydelse, was published in 2009, and tells the story of a PR worker and his girlfriend. The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet thought it one of the more notable Swedish books of the year. [10]

Kling has since published the novels Glasmannen (2014), Lycka (2019), and Repris (2023).

Filmography

Bibliography

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References

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