Mikael Marcimain
Mikael Marcimain | |
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Born | Stockholm, Sweden | 17 March 1970
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1999–present |
Mikael Marcimain (born 17 March 1970) is a Swedish film and television director.[1] Marcimain has primarily directed advertisements and television dramas, for which he has received several awards. Notable in his filmography are the serials The Laser Man and How Soon Is Now?, which were made with cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema. Marcimain's first feature film, the political thriller Call Girl, was released in autumn 2012.[2]
Career
Marcimain worked for nine years as an assistant director in the film industry before he was offered to make the one-hour film Broken Hearts as part of SVT Drama's TV series A Little Red Package (1999). His breakthrough came with the acclaimed miniseries Lasermannen (2005) and How Soon Is Now? (2007). He was awarded the Dagens Nyheter Culture Prize in 2007.[3][4]
In June 2011, he received funding from the
In 2013, Marcimain started the filming of the film adaptation of Klas Östergren's novels Gentlemen and Gangsters, in which David Dencik plays the lead role as the dandy Henry Morgan. This will be the third time Marcimain and Dencik have worked together.[7]
Marcimain has stated that one of his future projects will be to film Stefan Spjut's novel Stallo, which takes place in the realm of fairy tales and is about trolls.[8]
He often works with actors
Filmography
Year | English title | Original title | Notes |
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1999 | Ett litet rött paket | TV film | |
2002 | Skeppsholmen | TV series | |
2003 | Det brinner! | TV serial | |
2004 | Graven | TV serial | |
2005 | The Laser Man | Lasermannen | TV serial |
2007 | How Soon Is Now? | Upp till kamp | TV serial |
2010 | Wallander | Two episodes | |
2012 | Call Girl | ||
2014 | Gentlemen | ||
2018 | Liberty | ||
2020 | Horizon Line | ||
2023 | Blackwater | TV series |
References
- ^ "Mikael Marcimain". Swedish Film Database (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 2011-07-01.
- ^ Røssing Jensen, Jorn. "Call Girl explores 1977 Swedish political scandal". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2011-07-01.
- ^ a b c Collin, Lars (3 November 2012). "Samtidsfångare". Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
- ^ "Vinnare: Mikael Marcimain". Dagens Nyheter. 6 February 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
- ^ Dagens Nyheter 2011-06-24, Kultur sidan 3
- ^ "Marcimain vann filmpris i Toronto". Svenska Dagbladet. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
- ^ Wennö, Nicholas (8 March 2013). "Gentlemännen går igen på filmduken". Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ^ "Mikael Marcimain och trollen". Sveriges Radio. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
External links
- Mikael Marcimain at IMDb
- Mikael Marcimain at the Swedish Film Database