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# Bengt Forslund

Producer. Born 22 June 1932 in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 22 June 1932, Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
- **Also known as:** Bengt Erik Forslund
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengt_Forslund, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4683793, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286873/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58302

## Biography

Bengt Forslund (also credited as Bengt Erik Forslund) is a Swedish film producer, screenwriter and production manager. Born on 22 June 1932 in Grödinge, near Stockholm, he founded the influential film magazine Chaplin in 1959 and later worked as a producer at Svensk Filmindustri and the Swedish Film Institute.

He is best known for his long collaboration with director Jan Troell. Forslund co-wrote the screenplays and produced *The Emigrants* (1971) and *The New Land* (1972), both adapted from Vilhelm Moberg’s novels. For *The Emigrants* he received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. He has also produced and written numerous other Swedish films, directed several features and authored books on cinema.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, svenskfilmdatabas.se.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Emigrants* (1971), Fi1m 85, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-emigrants.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Filmstaden* (2001), Actor
- *The Polar Bear King* (1991), Co-Producer
- *Mauritz Stiller* (1987), Producer
- *Amorosa* (1986), Producer
- *Victor Sjöström - A Portrait* (1981), Producer
- *Children's Island* (1980), Producer
- *Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet* (1979), Producer
- *A Walk in the Sun* (1978), Producer
- *Chez Nous* (1978), Producer
- *Hempas Bar* (1977), Producer
- *Mondays with Fanny* (1977), Producer
- *Games of Love and Loneliness* (1977), Producer, Writer
- *Bo Widerberg* (1977), Producer
- *Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival* (1976), Producer
- *Hallo Baby* (1976), Producer
- *The Metamorphosis* (1976), Producer
- *The White Wall* (1975), Producer
- *Five Days in Falköping* (1975), Producer
- *Skärseld* (1975), Producer
- *The Emigrants* (1974), series, Writer, Producer, Creator
- *A Stranger Came by Train* (1974), Producer
- *A Handful of Love* (1974), Producer
- *Håll alla dörrar öppna* (1973), Production Manager
- *The Stone Face* (1973), Writer
- *Luftburen* (1973), Director
- *The New Land* (1972), Screenplay, Producer
- *The Emigrants* (1971), Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-emigrants.md)
- *Dog Days* (1970), Writer, Producer, Production Manager
- *Extradition of the Balts* (1970), Producer
- *A Dream About Freedom* (1969), Producer, Writer, Production Manager
- *Made in Sweden* (1969), Producer
- *Porträtt av en stad* (1969), as Klara-Charlotta's rescuer (uncredited) · Producer
- *The Corridor* (1968), Writer, Producer
- *Who Saw Him Die?* (1968), Producer, Writer
- *Ola and Julia* (1967), Writer, Producer
- *Life's Just Great* (1967), Actor
- *Here Is Your Life* (1966), Screenplay, Producer
- *Oj oj oj eller 'Sången om den eldröda hummern'* (1966), Writer
- *The Devil's Instrument* (1965), Producer
- *4 x 4* (1965), Writer
- *Interlude in the Marshland* (1965), Screenplay
- *Nilsson* (1965), Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1973: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Emigrants*
- 1973: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Emigrants*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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