Henning Carlsen

Henning Carlsen was born in Aalborg on 4 June 1927. Having joined Minerva Film as an assistant in 1948, he then studied cinema, notably in France, and made documentary short films before becoming his own producer in 1960. His first feature film, shot clandestinely in South Africa and released in 1962, portrays racial conflicts under apartheid. He taught at the Danish film school from 1966, ran the Dagmar cinema in Copenhagen from 1968 to 1981, succeeding Dreyer, and in 1990 co-founded the European Film College in Ebeltoft. He died in Copenhagen on 30 May 2014.

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• CinemaHungerSultHenning Carlsen · 1966Cinema