Martin Asphaug is a film director

Film director

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 from Trondheim

Trondheim

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, Norway

Norway

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With a background from writing and directing short films

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

, industry documentaries

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 and PSAs

Public service announcement

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, Asphaug made his feature film debut with the award-winning 1989 film, A Handful of Time

A Handful of Time

A Handful of Time is a Norwegian film from 1989, directed by Martin Asphaug. Starring Espen Skjønberg, Camilla Strøm-Henriksen, Nicolay Lange-Nielsen and Bjørn Sundquist, the film also features Susannah York and Nigel Hawthorne....

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Since 1992 Asphaug has primarily worked in Sweden

Sweden

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, in several cases with SVT

Sveriges Television

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, directing episodes of Rederiet

Rederiet

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and the first season of Skärgårdsdoktorn

Skärgårdsdoktorn

Skärgårdsdoktorn was a Swedish television series produced by SVT Drama. The series ran from 1997 to 2000 and a total of 18 episodes were produced...

. Since 2000, Asphaug has worked on several projects from author Håkan Nesser

Håkan Nesser

Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000...

, the first films of the Van Veeteren series (adaptations of The Mind's Eye

The Mind's Eye (novel)

The Mind's Eye is a 1993 novel by Håkan Nesser in the Van Veeteren series, translated into English in 2008 by Laurie Thompson. Nesser was awarded the 1993 Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize for new authors for this novel....

, The Return

The Return (novel)

The Return is a 1995 novel by Håkan Nesser, translated into English in 2007 by Laurie Thompson....

and Woman with Birthmark

Woman with Birthmark

Woman with Birthmark is a 1996 novel by Håkan Nesser, which won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in the same year. The English translation will be published in 2009....

) and the 1962 period film Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö of 2005. In 2007 he directed the first two films of the Irene Huss series by Helene Tursten

Helene Tursten

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He lives near Ystad

Ystad

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 in Skåne

Scania

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Filmography

Feature films:

• En Håndfull Tid (1989, A Handful of Time
  A Handful of Time
  A Handful of Time is a Norwegian film from 1989, directed by Martin Asphaug. Starring Espen Skjønberg, Camilla Strøm-Henriksen, Nicolay Lange-Nielsen and Bjørn Sundquist, the film also features Susannah York and Nigel Hawthorne....
  
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• Svampe (1990)
• Giftige Løgner (1992, Toxic Lies)
• Andreaskorset (2004, The Crossing)
• Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö (2005, Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake)

TV series:

• Min vän Percys magiska gymnastikskor (1994, My Friend Percy's Magic Gym Shoes)
• Zonen (1996, The Zone)
• Skärgårdsdoktorn
  Skärgårdsdoktorn
  Skärgårdsdoktorn was a Swedish television series produced by SVT Drama. The series ran from 1997 to 2000 and a total of 18 episodes were produced...
  
  , episodes 1-8 (1997)
• Det Grovmaskiga Nätet (2000, The Mind's Eye)
• Återkomsten (2001, The Return)
• Kvinna med Födelsemärke (2001, Woman with Birthmark)
• Slangebæreren (2005, The Snakebearer)

Short films:

• "Stil" (1986, "Essay")
• "Hyl" (1987, "Howl")
• "Brr" (1987)
• Folk flest bor i Kina (2002: segment "SV")

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