---
name: "Svend Abrahamsen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/svend-abrahamsen"
fi1m_id: "svend-abrahamsen"
imdb_id: "nm1061881"
tmdb_id: 6149
wikidata_id: "Q33437263"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "19 May 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T02:23:44.207642+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."
---

# Svend Abrahamsen

## Identity

Svend Abrahamsen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/svend-abrahamsen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** svend-abrahamsen
- **IMDb ID:** nm1061881
- **TMDB ID:** 6149
- **Wikidata ID:** Q33437263
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33437263, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1061881/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6149

Producer. Born 19 May 1947 in København, Danmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 19 May 1947, København, Danmark
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33437263, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1061881/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6149

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Idiots*](https://film.one/film/the-idiots.md) (54)

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

## Biography

Svend Abrahamsen is a Danish producer and former executive. Born on 19 May 1947 in Copenhagen, he has worked extensively with Danmarks Radio (DR) and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

He served as producer for DR TV on Lars von Trier's *The Idiots* (1998) and as co-producer on Thomas Vinterberg's *The Celebration* (1998). He was also executive producer on the television series *The Kingdom* (1994) and its sequel *The Kingdom II* (1997).

Abrahamsen was CEO of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond from 2000 to 2007. Earlier in his career he worked as a writer and director on Danish television productions.

*Sources: imdb.com, danskefilm.dk, nordiskfilmogtvfond.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Celebration* (1998), Fi1m 85, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-celebration.md)
- *The Idiots* (1998), Fi1m 54, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-idiots.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *The King Is Alive* (2000), Producer
- *Possessed* (1999), Executive Producer
- *The Kingdom II* (1998), Executive Producer
- *The Celebration* (1998), Co-Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-celebration.md)
- *The Idiots* (1998), Producer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-idiots.md)
- *Bryggeren* (1996), series, Executive Producer
- *The Kingdom* (1994), Executive Producer
- *The Kingdom* (1994), series, Executive Producer
- *Med Kjærlig Hilsen* (1991), series, Sound
- *Johansens sidste ugudelige dage* (1989), series, Editorial Staff
- *Heavy Agger* (1986), Sound
- *Familien Krahne* (1982), series, Director
- *No Chief Is Good Enough* (1975), Writer, Director

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