Biography
Mogens Rukov (4 August 1943 – 18 December 2015) was a Danish screenwriter and playwright. He earned a university degree in Nordic philology and film in 1974. He taught in the screenwriting department at the National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen, where he helped establish the department in 1985 and headed it until 2008.
Rukov co-wrote the screenplay for The Celebration (1998) with Thomas Vinterberg. He worked as a script consultant on The Idiots (1998) and co-wrote screenplays for films including Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001), It's All About Love (2003), Reconstruction (2003), The Inheritance (2003) and When a Man Comes Home (2007). He received a Robert Award for the screenplay of The Celebration in 1999.
