Hans Alfredson

Hans Alfredson was born on Jun 28, 1931 in Sweden. Hans Alfredson's big-screen debut came with Ett svårskött pastorat directed by Pelle Lingheim in 1958, strarring Redaktör. Hans Alfredson is known for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest directed by Daniel Alfredson, Michael Nyqvist stars as Mikael Blomkvist and Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander. Hans Alfredson has got 8 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Hans Alfredson achieved is Chicago International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Hans Alfredson plays is The Ice Dragon which will be released on Feb 24, 2012.

During 1956-60 Hans Alfredson worked at Sveriges Radio together with Tage Danielsson. They wrote, directed and starred in several revues 1962-1982. As a director and scriptwriter for the screen Alfredson tried many different genres. He had his greatest critical successes with Ägget är löst! En hårdkokt saga (1975) and L'assassin candide (1982), which got the Silver Bear and Best Actor award for Stellan Skarsgård at the Berlin Film Festival and the film also was awarded with two Guldbaggar. Some of his best acting performances he did in Jonas Cornell's Grisjakten (1970), Anders Lönnbro's Sista budet (1981) and his own L'assassin candide (1982). Alfredson has also written many books, some for children such as "Blommmig falukorv och andra bitar" (1965) and "Varför är det så ont om Q?" (1968). At first Alfredson only was known as a great comedian but later the dark sides has been more prominent, for example in the books "En ond man" (1980) (for which he adapted the screenplay for L'assassin candide (1982) from.) and "Tiden är ingenting (1981).