Bille August

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Pelle the Conqueror (1987): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Max von Sydow; Swedish widower Max Von Sydow emigrates in the 19th century to Denmark with his son, where they struggle against injustice and poverty. Won an Oscar…
Best Intentions (1992): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Samuel Froler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow…; Sincere, meticulous yet characteristically bleak adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's biographical account of his parents' turbulent courtship and…
House of the Spirits (1993): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close…; Alternately ponderous and fascinating screen version of Isabel Allende's acclaimed saga charting the turbulent history of a South American family…
Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Smilla's Sense of Snow) (1997): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris; From Peter Hoeg's acclaimed novel, Julia Ormond glistens in the plumb role of the frosty, feisty half–eskimo woman who over–concerns…
Les Miserables (1998): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman…; Victor Hugo's epic tale of France circa 1820 is dusted off once more, Liam Neeson here being forever dogged by Inspector Javert (Geoffrey Rush…
Song for Martin, A (2001): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Sven Wollter, Reine Brynolfsson; Touching drama of a composer and concertmaster who fall in love through classical music, only to battle the effects of Alzheimer's. Foreseeable…
Goodbye Bafana (Color of Freedom) (2007): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger; Nelson Mandela's imprisonment and subsequent friendship with a bigoted Afrikaner prison warden is eavesdropped in this humanist portrait of a crucial…
Chacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007): Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August; 35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film…
Night Train to Lisbon (2013): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston…; Jeremy Irons goes walkabout as a professor seeking an escape from his buttoned–down academic life, embarking on a train journey to Lisbon after…
Silent Heart (2014): Dir. Bille August
Feat. Ghita Norby, Paprika Steen, Jens Albinus…; Earnest chamber drama about three generations of a family coming together over a weekend. A sick mother's wish to die before her disease worsens gets…

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Bille August

Filmography (All Films)