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Filmmaker · Finland

Erik Blomberg

Died in 1996

Erik Blomberg was born in Helsinki on 18 September 1913. He joined the Suomi-Filmi laboratory as a trainee in 1934, studied lighting in London and Paris from the following year, became a master of black and white and forged an expressive camera style in his documentaries. A cinematographer, editor, screenwriter, producer and director, he took part in more than two hundred and fifty films. In 1939 he married the actress Mirjami Kuosmanen, with whom he had four children, and he died at Kuusjoki on 12 October 1996.

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