---
name: "Henrik Ruben Genz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/henrik-ruben-genz"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "7 November 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:11:49.446869+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Henrik Ruben Genz

Director. Born 7 November 1959 in Gram, Danmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 7 November 1959, Gram, Danmark
- **Active:** 2007–2010
- **Frequently works with:** [Charlotte Sieling](https://film.one/person/charlotte-sieling.md), [Søren Malling](https://film.one/person/sren-malling.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ruben_Genz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5716496, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313227/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82351

## Coming up

- *Hvad stiller vi op med far?* (2027-01-07), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Borgen*](https://film.one/tv/borgen.md) (84)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Killing*](https://film.one/tv/the-killing-2007.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Henrik Ruben Genz is a Danish film and television director and screenwriter. Born in Gram in 1959, he first studied graphic design and printmaking at Designskolen Kolding before training at the National Film School of Denmark, graduating in 1995 with the short film *Cross Roads*.

After directing short films and documentaries for Danish broadcaster DR, Genz contributed episodes to series including *Nikolaj & Julie* (2002–2003), *Better Times* (2004–2007), *The Killing* (2007) and *Borgen* (2013). His feature films include *Someone Like Hodder* (2003), *Chinaman* (2005), *Terribly Happy* (2008), which won the Grand Prix at Karlovy Vary and multiple Robert Awards, *Good People* (2014), *Word of God* (2017) and *Erna at War* (2020). His 1999 short *Theis and Nico* received a Crystal Bear at Berlin and an Academy Award nomination; he was awarded the Carl Theodor Dreyer Award in 2009.

*Sources: dfi.dk, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Borgen* (2010), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/borgen.md)
- *The Killing* (2007), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-killing-2007.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Hvad stiller vi op med far?* (2027), Director
- *A Lucky Man* (2022), Director, Writer
- *The Shift* (2022), series, Director, Writer
- *Mother at War* (2020), Director, Screenplay
- *DNA* (2019), series, Director
- *Word of God* (2017), Director, Writer
- *Feed the Beast* (2016), series, Executive Producer
- *Satisfaction 1720* (2016), Director
- *Broke* (2014), series, Creator
- *Good People* (2014), Director
- *Excuse Me* (2012), Director, Screenplay
- *Cirkusliv i savsmuld* (2011), series, Director
- *Borgen* (2010), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/borgen.md)
- *Terribly Happy* (2008), Director, Screenplay
- *The Killing* (2007), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-killing-2007.md)
- *Chinaman* (2005), Director
- *Better Times* (2004), series, Director
- *Defense* (2003), series, Director
- *Someone Like Hodder* (2003), Director
- *Nikolaj and Julie* (2002), series, Director
- *Theis and Nico* (1999), Director
- *Cross Roads* (1995), Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2000: Best Live Action Short Film (nominated), for *Theis and Nico*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Robert Award for Best Director 2009: Robert Award for Best Director (won), for *Terribly Happy*
- Niels Prize 1998: Niels Prize (won)

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

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