Bille August

Bille August

1948-11-09 37 Credits

Biography

Bille August  (born November 9, 1948) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1991 for The Best Intentions, based on the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman. He was married to Swedish actress Pernilla August from 1991 to 1997. His son Anders August is a screenwriter.

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Lifting the Veil: Behind the Scenes of Ehrengard

Lifting the Veil: Behind the Scenes of Ehrengard

2023

as Self

8.0
Acting

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and director Bille August showcase their meticulous attention to the sets and costumes of the "Ehrengard" film adaptatio...

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction

Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction

2023

Director

6.2
Directing

When a self-appointed expert on love tries to teach a timid prince the art of seduction, the plan backfires, leading to scandal — and unexpected roman...

The Kiss

The Kiss

2022

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

A romantic drama set in Denmark in 1913, the story follows Anton, a noble and conscientious young man whose top priority is to complete his training a...

The Pact

The Pact

2021

Director

6.4
Directing

Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up he...

A Fortunate Man

A Fortunate Man

2018

Director, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite. As he rises through the ranks of society, the pride p...

55 Steps

55 Steps

2018

Director

6.7
Directing

The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the righ...

The Chinese Widow

The Chinese Widow

2017

Director

7.2
Directing

It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all b...

Silent Heart

Silent Heart

2014

Director

6.5
Directing

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her ...

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

2013

Director

6.5
Directing

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which...

Marie Kroyer

Marie Kroyer

2012

Director

6.3
Directing

Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer a...

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

Director

6.5
Directing

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

The Last Dating Show

The Last Dating Show

2007

Director

Directing

A young Dane has a movie date with a woman. He translates it into English because she does not speak Danish. The man's translation of the Danish movie...

Goodbye Bafana

Goodbye Bafana

2007

Director

6.8
Directing

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's nam...

Return to Sender

Return to Sender

2004

Director

6.4
Directing

While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated wit...

A Song for Martin

A Song for Martin

2001

Director, Writer

5.6
Directing Writing

Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

2000

Director

5.6
Directing

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional ...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence

1999

Director

5.5
Directing

In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he hopes will bring a swift e...

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

1998

Director

7.2
Directing

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

Director

6.3
Directing

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

1996

Writer, Director

7.2
Writing Directing

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

1993

Screenplay, Director

6.9
Writing Directing

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

The Best Intentions

The Best Intentions

1992

Director

7.1
Directing

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely,...

Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood

1989

as Self

Acting

Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their exper...

Pelle the Conqueror

Pelle the Conqueror

1987

Director, Screenplay

7.3
Directing Writing

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a fa...

Twist and Shout

Twist and Shout

1984

Director, Writer

6.5
Directing Writing

Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who in...

Busters verden

Busters verden

1984

Director

6.1
Directing

The television series was based on a play by Danish author Bjarne Reuter. In 1984 Reuter published his collection Tre skuespil ("Three Plays"); a coll...

May

May

1983

Director

Directing

An everyday story about a young girl from the countryside and the people she meets when she moves to the big city to train as a hairdresser.

Zappa

Zappa

1983

Director

7.2
Directing

Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold pa...

Sova Räv

Sova Räv

1982

Cinematography

6.0

About four young individuals that has been let down by their parents. They live an extroverted life together, searching for their identity, in constan...

The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing

1981

Director of Photography

4.2
Directing

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced t...

Thomas - A Child Out of Reach

1980

Camera Operator

A feature length documentary about fourteen year old Thomas, a psychotic and severely mentally handicapped young boy.

In My Life

In My Life

1978

Director

4.4
Directing

A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.

Men Can't Be Raped

Men Can't Be Raped

1978

Director of Photography

6.2
Directing

A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.

Christiania

Christiania

1977

Camera Operator

Freetown Christiania, also known as Christiania, is an intentional community and commune of about 850 to 1,000 residents, covering 7.7 hectares (19 ac...

Hemåt i natten

Hemåt i natten

1977

Director of Photography

Directing

Harri is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marries and has a child. After accidentally killing a m...

Me, You

Me, You

N/A

Director

Directing

On a remote Italian island in the early 1960s, a teenage boy haunted by memories of the war falls in love with an older girl who holds a dark secret. ...

Versace: The Medusa Eyes

N/A

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

A look at the life of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace who rose to fame in the late 1970s.