Geir Hansteen Jörgensen is a Swedish

Sweden

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 television

Television

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/film director

Film director

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. His most famous works are probably the film and TV mini-series The New Country

The New Country

The New Country is a Swedish mini TV-series and feature film from 2000, directed by Geir Hansteen Jörgensen and written by Peter Birro and Lukas Moodysson. The mini-series version had a huge audience at national television, SVT and the feature film version won more awards around the world than any...

and the The Soloists. Both have received many award

Award

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s internationally.

Hansteen Jörgensen was born by artist parents on the Swedish countryside where he, besides painting and drawing started to make short films already as a child. He was educated at The Stockholm Film-school and the Dramatiska Institutet

Dramatiska Institutet

Dramatiska Institutet or University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre is a Swedish university college in Stockholm that provides education programs about activities surrounding film, radio, television, and theater. It was founded in 1970 by the Swedish government...

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Filmography

• Foxfire (1994) (Räveld)
• Exit
  Exit
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  (1996) (Nöd ut)
• Close Encounter
  Close encounter
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  (1997) (Närkontakt)
• Riksorganet (1998)
• La Città Dolente (1998)
• 6th Day (1999) (Sjätte dagen)
• The New Country
  The New Country
  The New Country is a Swedish mini TV-series and feature film from 2000, directed by Geir Hansteen Jörgensen and written by Peter Birro and Lukas Moodysson. The mini-series version had a huge audience at national television, SVT and the feature film version won more awards around the world than any...
  
  (2000) (Det nya landet)
• The Soloists (2003) (Solisterna)

External links

• Hansteen Jörgensen