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Kay Pollak

Kay Pollak

Directing

Biography

Kay Pollak is a Swedish film director. After a long break from film-making, he returned in 2004 with As It Is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen), a major box office success in Sweden. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also nominated for no less than eight Swedish Guldbagge Awards, including Best Direction and Best Film, but received none.

Known For

The Guldbagge Awards
5.5

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

The Guldbagge Awards

1981
Svenska tv-historier
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Factual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.

Svenska tv-historier

2015
Children's Island
6.3

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.

Children's Island

1980
As It Is in Heaven
7.1

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir, which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.

As It Is in Heaven

2004
Heaven on Earth
4.8

A life-affirming story about how the power of love, music and dance can change people. This is a standalone sequel to "As it is in Heaven".

Heaven on Earth

2015
Elvis! Elvis!
5.4

The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.

Elvis! Elvis!

1976
Love Me!
5.6

Sussie is 15, raised with her alcoholic mother and an absent father. She has lived in several foster homes. Now she gets one last chance with a new family, the Lindgren's who live in a large house by the sea.

Love Me!

1986
Den hemliga verkligheten
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Den hemliga verkligheten

1972
Så som i himmelen - musikalen
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Conductor Daniel returns to his childhood village where he learns to know the many colorful characters of the village. Meetings where friendships are made, enmities arise and love begins to blossom are warmly portrayed. Recording of the swedish musical with the same title from Oscarsteatern 2020.

Så som i himmelen - musikalen

2018