Göran Carmback

Göran Carmback

director, sound department, writer

Göran Carmback was born on May 29, 1950 in Sweden. Göran Carmback's big-screen debut came with Fimpen directed by Bo Widerberg in 1974. Göran Carmback is known for My Life as a Dog directed by Lasse Hallström, Anton Glanzelius stars as Ingemar and Tomas von Brömssen as Gunnar, Ingemars morbror. The upcoming new movie Göran Carmback plays is Kalle Blomkvist och Rasmus which will be released on Dec 26, 1997.

Director Göran Carmback was born in Södertälje, a city south of Stockholm. His father worked as a projectionist and Göran became interested in films when he was very young. After having left school he too started out as a projectionist, at Nordisk Tonefilm, and at the same he also began working as a sound balancer. He soon became one of the most skilled sound balancers in Sweden, participating at the making of more than forty Swedish films, working together with, among others Bo Widerberg "All Things Fair" and Lasse Hallström "My Life as a Dog". Göran continued to work as a sound balancer until 1988.His dream was to become a producer, though, and he got the opportunity to make the dream come through when Svensk Filmindustri (SF) asked him to be the director of a series of films for children. So, in 1988 Göran Carmback directed two stories by Astrid Lindgren: "My very own sister" and "There are no robbers in the forrest" and in 1996 he directed the feature film "The Master Detective lives dangerously" (Kalle Blomkvist

  • Birthday

    May 29, 1950
  • Place of Birth

    Södertälje, Stockholms län, Sweden

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