Jörn Johan Donner (born 5 February 1933 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician, member of the Donner family and founder of Finnish Film Archive. He has been associated with several different political parties, and has at different times been a member both of the Finnish parliament and the European Parliament. As of 2007 he was again a member of the Finnish parliament for a short while, after Eva Biau...
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Jörn Johan Donner (born 5 February 1933 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, politician, member of the Donner family and founder of Finnish Film Archive. He has been associated with several different political parties, and has at different times been a member both of the Finnish parliament and the European Parliament. As of 2007 he was again a member of the Finnish parliament for a short while, after Eva Biaudet resigned to take a position at the OSCE. Jörn Donner has also for long periods lived and worked in Sweden, and has, among other things, served as director of the Swedish Film Institute. His novel Far och son (Father and Son) won him the Finlandia Prize in 1985.
He is the son of the linguist Kai Donner.
Internationally Jörn Donner is best known as the producer of Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece Fanny and Alexander. In 1981 the movie won a total of four Academy Awards including the award for best foreign language film
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