Birger Larsen (director)

Birger Larsen
Born	(1961-12-22)22 December 1961 Hvidovre, Denmark
Died	26 October 2016(2016-10-26) (aged 54) Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Occupation(s)	Film director and screenwriter
Notable work	Dance of the Polar Bears, Sweethearts, Crimes of Passion

The grave of the film director Birger Larsen (1961–2016) at Holmens Kirkegård in Copenhagen.

Birger Larsen (22 December 1961 – 26 October 2016) was a Danish film director and screenwriter. He won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film for his 1990 film Dance of the Polar Bears (Danish: Lad isbjørnene danse). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his film Sweethearts (1996). In 2013, he directed the first episode of Crimes of Passion.

Filmography

Film

• Dance of the Polar Bears (1990)
• The Big Dipper (1992)
• One Step Behind (2005)
• SuperBrother (2009)
• Those Who Kill – Shadow of the Past (2012)

Short film

• Sweethearts (1996)

TV movies

• Længe leve friheden (1993)
• Murder: Joint Enterprise (2012)

TV series

• Frihedens skygge (1994)
• Taxa (1997)
• Nikolaj og Julie (2002)
• Den 5:e kvinnan (2002)
• The Killing (2007)
• Those Who Kill (2010)
• Murder (2016) (Episode "The Third Voice")

Other credits

Title	Year	Role
Wanna see my beautiful navel?	1978	Claus
Beauty and the Beast	1983	Assistant lighting technician
The Element of Crime	1984	Best boy (2o unit)
Tonny Toupé show	1985	Billardspiller med solbriller
Emma's Shadow	1988	Assistant director
Holes in the Soup		Editor
Heaven and Hell		2o unit director
Shower of Gold		Assistant director
Love on the rails	1989
Eye of the Eagle	1997	2o unit director
Skagerrak	2003

External links

• Birger Larsen at IMDb
• Birger Larsen in the Danish Film Database
• "BBC Two – Murder, Series 1, The Third Voice – The making of Murder: behind the scenes with director Birger Larsen". BBC. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
• Bodil award 1991