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Photo: Bengt Wanselius
During the years Harald Hamrell has established himself as one of the most successful and rewarded directors of mini-tv series and feature films in Sweden. He has been directing and co-writing many of the last decades most popular films and television series. Harald was born in Uppsala, (a university city of Sweden), and was already in his early teens into making short films. He was also a child star, acting in film and television.
In recent years Harald has won a number of awards. Among them Kristallen (the Swedish Emmy Award) for the television serie Om Stig Petrés hemlighet, (Nothing to be ashamed of), for best Swedish drama 2005. The serie was also honoured three prizes at the international tv-festival in Reims, France in 2006; the professional jurys prize for best tv-serie, the audience jurys prize for best tv-drama, and prize for best music. Harald was also nominated for an international Emmy in New York 2003 for the mini-serie RAMONA.
Harald has directed films in many genres, both thrillers like BECK – Skarpt läge (BECK - The Scorpion), a great success in the Swedish cinemas as the awarded children’s movie En häxa i familjen, (A witch in the family), or the love story Vinterviken, (Winter Bay), for which Harald was nominated to a Guldbagge (a Swedish Oscar) for best script. Last year Haralds mini TV-serie En spricka i kristallen, (Fragile Bonds), had it´s premiere on Swedish Public Television. It´s a dark family drama that takes place in a wealthy industrial family were the daughter, who is the main character, feels that she is not loved and seen by her parents. It had a big audience and was well recieved.
This autumn Harald has been in full production shooting two new feature film in the BECK serie. The first one is called BECK - I stormen öga, (BECK - In the Eye of the Storm), it is now in post production and will be in the cinemas in September 2009.
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