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Björn Runge is known for:

  • The Wife
    A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • Daybreak
    Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend time on his family, not just money.
  • Happy End
    They are people who have important significance for each other, but are not honest with each other. They live in a shadow world of lies and half truths and just waiting for the truth to come forward so they can continue their lives in a new direction.

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Biography

Björn Lennart Runge, born 21 June 1961 is a Swedish director and author. He was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize in 2006 for "Mun mot mun". Björn Runge has worked in film since he was 20, and has worked with Roy Andersson, amongst others. He graduated from the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm in 1989. In 1991, he worked on the prize winning short film "Greger Olsson kjøper en bil", and in 1993, he won a Guldbagge for the best directing and script for the film "Om jäg vänder mig om". The film also won a Blue Angel at the Berlin Film Festival in the same year. In 2006, he was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize for Mun mot mun with the producer Clas Gunnarson. Runge has also directed a number of short films and TV productions.