Johan Jacobsen

Johan Jacobsen was born in Aarhus in 1912, the son of a theatre and cinema director and an actress. After a stay in the United States, he worked for a distributor and then became an assistant and editor, studied documentary in London under John Grierson and continued his training in Paris. He moved into directing in 1938, became his own producer in 1947, then founded a studio and, at the end of his life, worked for the businessman Simon Spies in a Copenhagen cinema. He died in 1972.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaJenny and the SoldierSoldaten og JennyJohan Jacobsen · 1947Cinema