Ole Bornedal

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Ole Bornedal
Born (1959-05-26) 26 May 1959 (age 65)
NationalityDanish
Occupation Film director
Spouse Helle Fagralid

Ole Bornedal (born 26 May 1959) is a Danish film director, actor and producer. [1]

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Bornedal was born in Nørresundby, Denmark. He wrote and directed Nattevagten (Nightwatch, 1994), a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes. He also directed an English language remake ( Nightwatch ) in 1997, starring Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte and Patricia Arquette. In 2002, he directed I Am Dina . Other Danish films include The Substitute (2007), Just Another Love Story (2007), and Deliver Us from Evil. He directed the English-language film The Possession (2012) and was one of the producers of the horror film Mimic . In 2014 he wrote and directed the epic historical drama 1864 , the most expensive Danish TV series in history, chronicling the Second Schleswig War through the story of two brothers. [2]

He is married to the Danish actress, Helle Fagralid, and has three children.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer
1994 Nattevagten YesYesNo
1997 Mimic NoNoYes
Nightwatch YesYesNo
2002 I Am Dina YesYesNo
2007 The Substitute YesYesNo
Just Another Love Story YesYesNo
2009Fri os fra det ondeYesYesNo
2012 The Possession YesNoNo
2017Dræberne fra NibeYesYesYes
2018Så længe jeg leverYesYesCo-producer
2021 The Shadow in My Eye YesYesCo-producer
2023Nightwatch: Demons Are ForeverYesYesNo

Television

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducerNotes
1995Sprængt nakkeYesYesNoTV short
1996Charlot og CharlotteYesYesNoMiniseries
2010Vores krigYesNoNoEpisode "Kære Elena og Niels"
2014 1864 YesYesCo-producerMiniseries

TV movies

YearTitleDirectorWriterProducer
1989The DreamerYesYesYes
1993I en del af verdenYesYesNo
MasturbatorYesYesNo
1999 Dybt vand YesYesNo

References

  1. "Ole Bornedal", The New York Times
  2. Forrest, Alex. "Front Row: Mad Max, Walter Mosley, Dark Arteries, 1864". BBC iPlayer . Retrieved 21 March 2017.