Björn Runge

Björn Runge
Björn Runge
Born	Björn Lennart Runge; 21 June 1961 (age 63); Lysekil, Sweden
Occupation(s)	Director, author
Years active	1984–present
Notable work	Daybreak (2003); The Wife (2017);

Björn Lennart Runge is a Swedish director and author. He was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize in 2006 for Mun mot mun.

Early life

Runge was born in Lysekil. He has worked in film since he was 20 and with Roy Andersson, amongst others. He graduated from the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm in 1989.

Career

In 1991, he worked on the prizewinning short film Greger Olsson köper en bil, and in 2004, he won a Guldbagge Award for the best directing and script for the film Om jag vänder mig om. The film also won a Blue Angel at the Berlin Film Festival in the same year.

In 2006, he was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize for Mun mot mun with the producer Clas Gunnarson. The film deals with a family in crisis when their daughter, Vera, comes home with Morgan, an old criminal. Her father, Mats, fights desperately to win his daughter back.

Runge has directed a number of short films and TV productions.

In 2017, Runge directed the drama film, The Wife starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Annie Starke and Max Irons. For this role, Close won a Golden Globe, a SAG Award, and the Santa Barbara Int Film festival award for Best Leading Actress in 2018, among others.

In June 2019, Runge was awarded H.M the King's Medal 8th size for "significant contributions as a director and dramatist".

In 2022, he directed the drama film Burn All My Letters.^[1]