Jörn Donner

Jörn Johan Donner (5 February 1933 – 30 January 2020) was a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician and founder of Finnish Film Archive.<ref>Template:BLF</ref> He produced Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander, which won four Academy Awards in 1984. Donner also served in the Finnish parliament and the European Parliament, making significant contributions to both cinema and politics.

Biography

Born into the Finland-Swedish Donner family of German descent, Jörn Donner was the son of the linguist Kai Donner and the grandson of linguist and politician Otto Donner.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

He lived and worked for long periods in Sweden, and served as director of the Swedish Film Institute. In 1979, he was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="berlinale">Template:Cite web</ref> Internationally Jörn Donner was best known as the producer of Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander (Template:Lang, 1982). In 1984 the movie won a total of four Academy Awards including the award for best foreign language film,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> making him to date the only Finn to receive an Oscar. His novel Template:Lang (Father and Son) won the Finlandia Prize in 1985.

Donner was associated with several different political parties, such as SDP and RKP, and was at different times a member both of the Finnish parliament and the European Parliament. Template:As of he was again a member of the Finnish parliament for a short while, after Eva Biaudet resigned to take a position at the OSCE.

Donner suffered from prostate and lung cancers.<ref>Jörn Donner: "Syöpäkontrollit piinaavat"</ref> He died of lung disease at Meilahti hospital in Helsinki on 30 January 2020, six days before his 87th birthday.<ref name=hs>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After his death, an archive of thousands of photographs was discovered at his home, showing that Donner was also a skilled photographer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2023, Donner's widow revealed that she had thrown his ashes in the compost after discovering his history of infidelity.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Filmography

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Donner, with actress Kristiina Halkola filming Black on White in 1967

• Template:Lang (A Sunday in September, 1963)
• Template:Lang, (To Love, 1964)
• Template:Interlanguage link, (Adventure Starts Here, 1965)
• Template:Lang (Rooftree, 1967)
• Stimulantia (1967)
• Template:Lang, (Black on White, 1968)
• Template:Interlanguage link (1969)
• Anna (1970)
• Template:Lang, (Portraits of Women, 1970)
• Template:Lang (1971)
• Template:Lang (1972)
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• Near and Far Away (1976)
• Template:Interlanguage link (1978)
• Men Can't Be Raped (1978)
• Bergman File, The (1978)
• Template:Interlanguage link (1982)
• Hockeyfeber (1983)
• Dirty Story (1984)
• Template:Lang/Template:Interlanguage link (1988)
• Template:Lang (1998)
• Template:Lang (2000)
• The Border (Raja 1918, 2007)
• Kuulustelu (2009)
• Armi elää! (2015)

Bibliography

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Donner at the Helsinki Book Fair (2015)

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• 1971 – Template:Lang. Söderström. Template:OCLC
• 1972 – Template:Lang. Söderström. Template:ISBN
• 1973 – Template:Lang. Wahlström & Widstrand. Template:ISBN
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• 1976 – Template:Lang. Wahlström & Widstrand. Template:ISBN
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• 1991 – Fazer 100. Söderström. Template:ISBN
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• 2005 – Template:Lang. Aamulehti. Template:ISBN
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• 2007 – Template:Lang. Schildts. Template:ISBN
• 2009 – Template:Lang. Ekerlid. Template:ISBN
• 2011 – Template:Lang. Söderström. Template:ISBN
• 2013 – Template:Lang. Schildts & Söderströms. Template:ISBN
• 2015 – Template:Lang. Schildts & Söderströms. Template:ISBN
• 2015 – Template:Lang. Albert Bonniers Förlag. Template:ISBN
• 2019 – Template:Lang. Template:Interlanguage link. Template:ISBN

See also

• Donner family

Further reading

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External links

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• Jörn Donner in 375 Humanists. Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki. 28.7.2015.
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