Johan Kling is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 film director

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, and novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

ist. His debut movie, Darling

Darling (2007 film)

Darling is a 2007 Swedish drama film directed by Johan Kling, about an irresponsible young woman in central Stockholm who befriends an older man...

(2007), won the award for best Swedish film.

Career

Kling, the son of artist Carl Gustaf Lennart Ranghusen and Sara [Natt och Dag]], started his career making in television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

, making commercials

Television advertisement

A television advertisement or television commercial, often just commercial, advert, ad, or ad-film – is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization that conveys a message, typically one intended to market a product...

 (for McDonald's

McDonald's

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, among others) and directing TV shows

Television program

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.

Darling

Kling's debut feature, Darling, which he wrote and directed, was released in 2007. The movie is based on a short film, Jag, made a few years earlier. Darling is "a dark comedy about morals and manners in Stockholm," and stars Michael Segerström

Michael Segerström

Karl Kristian Mikael Segerström is a Swedish actor and director.Segerström was born in Lund and has worked at theatres in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Helsingborg as well as in film with Jönssonligan and others.-External links:...

 and Michelle Meadows. The latter's performance was praised highly by Variety

Variety (magazine)

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, which also praised Kling's "smooth" direction.

After winning the Best Film award, the "Nordic Film Prize," at the 2007 Gothenburg Film Festival

Gothenburg Film Festival

Göteborg International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, launched in 1979. The first year the festival showed 17 films on 3 screens, and had 3 000 visitors. Today, the film festival is the biggest in Scandinavia and takes place 10 days every year between January and...

, Darling garnered almost every possible award in Sweden. At the Swedish Film Awards in 2007, the Guldbagge Award

Guldbagge Award

The Guldbagge Award is an official Swedish film award awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute.-Etymology:Guldbagge is the Swedish name for Cetonia aurata, a beetle also known as rose chafer. The name of the award could also be interpreted as a play on the Swedish word skalbagge,...

s, Darling was nominated in six categories and won the awards for Best Male Actor and Best Cinematography. The film was awarded the award for best film of 2007 by the Swedish Association of Film Critics.

Darling had its international premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival

San Sebastián International Film Festival

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 in Spain, where it competed in the New Directors section.

Darling was awarded Best Movie prize at the 2008 Baltic Debuts film festival in Svetlogorsk, Russia. In 2011 Johan Kling is returning to Baltic Debuts as the member of the international jury.

Trust Me

Kling announed in 2008 that Darling would be followed by Trust Me

Trust Me (2010 film)

Trust Me is a 2010 Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Johan Kling, starring an ensemble cast including Alexander Skarsgård, Gustaf Skarsgård and Susanne Thorson...

, again starring Michelle Meadows and Michael Segerström.

Novels

Kling's novel Människor helt utan betydelse was published in 2009, and tells the story of a PR worker and his girlfriend; the leading Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...

thought it one of the more notable Swedish books of the year.

Filmography

• Darling
  Darling (2007 film)
  Darling is a 2007 Swedish drama film directed by Johan Kling, about an irresponsible young woman in central Stockholm who befriends an older man...
  
  (2007)
• Trust Me
  Trust Me (2010 film)
  Trust Me is a 2010 Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Johan Kling, starring an ensemble cast including Alexander Skarsgård, Gustaf Skarsgård and Susanne Thorson...
  
  (2010)

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