CHRISTIAN BRAAD THOMSEN

Born 10.12.1940

Educated from the Danish Film School 1969

Director, author, producer, distributor

Manager of Odense Film Festival 1997- 2005

Life time award from the State Artistic Council

Feature films:

Dear Irene (1971)

Wellspring of my World (1976)

Children of Pain (1977)

Dreams don't make noise when they die (1979)

Stab in the Heart (1981) Special jury prize at the San Remo Film Festival.

Ladies on the Rocks (1983) Director's prize at the Atlantic Film Festival.

The Blue Monk (1998) Carl Th. Dreyer Prize, Denmark.

Documentary films:

The Squattor Trilogy (1972)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1972)

Dusan Makavejev (1972)

The One You Love (1980)

Flowers of Memory (1991) Best documentary at The Danish Short Film Festival.

Karen Blixen - storyteller (1996) Best documentary at The Danish Short Film Festival.

Morten Korch - solskin kan man altid finde (1999).

Svend Åge Madsen - at fortælle menneskene (2002)

The Voice of Iran - Mohammad Reza Shajarian - The Copenhagen Concert 2002

Marilyn Mazur - Queen of Percussion (2006)

Books on cinema:

Godard - from gangsters to red guardists (1971)

Political filmmaking (1973)

The Non-Reconciled: Luis Bunuel, Robert Bresson, Andrei Tarkovskij, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Marie Straub (1988)

Fassbinder. His life and work (1991)

Hitchcock. His life and work (1990)

Snapshots. Film, politics, psychoanalysis (1993)

The Camera as Pen: Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette (1994)

Illness Transformed Into Beauty (Diary of The Blue Monk, 1998)

Dreamfilms, 100 of the best films of the 20th. century (2000).

Other books:

The Lust and the Law (essays on psychoanalysis, 1983)

Freud. Sigi the Conqueror (biography, 1984)

The Rose and the Gypsy (children's novel, 1985)

The Prodigal Son (novel, 1988)

Heritage and Debts (childhood memories, 1990). 

Focus on Freud (red. Ole Andkjær Olsen, Christian Braad Thomsen, Bente Petersen, 2006)