Björn Runge

Birthday: June 21st, 1961

Björn

Lennart Runge born 21 June 1961 in Lysekil 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. The film deals with a family in crisis when their

daughter, Vera, comes home with Morgan, an old criminal. Her father, Mats,

fights desperately to win his daughter back.

Runge has

directed a number of short films and TV productions.