Martin Asphaug

Martin Asphaug (born 28 April 1950) is a film director and screenwriter from Trondheim, Norway.

With a background in writing and directing short films, industry documentaries and PSAs, Asphaug made his feature film debut with the award-winning 1989 film, A Handful of Time.[1]

Since 1992 Asphaug has primarily worked in Sweden, in several cases with SVT, directing episodes of Rederiet and the first season of Skärgårdsdoktorn.[2] Since 2000, Asphaug has worked on several projects from author Håkan Nesser, the first films of the Van Veeteren series (adaptations of The Mind's Eye, The Return and Woman with Birthmark) and the 1962 period film Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö of 2005.[3] In 2007 he directed the first two films of the Irene Huss series by Helene Tursten.

He lives near Ystad in Skåne.[1][2]

Filmography

Feature films:

  • En Håndfull Tid (1989, A Handful of Time)
  • Svampe (1990)
  • Giftige Løgner (1992, Toxic Lies)
  • Andreaskorset (2004, The Crossing)
  • Kim Novak badade aldrig i Genesarets sjö (2005, Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake)

TV series:

  • Min vän Percys magiska gymnastikskor (1994, My Friend Percy's Magic Gym Shoes)
  • Zonen (1996, The Zone)
  • Skärgårdsdoktorn, episodes 1-8 (1997)
  • Det Grovmaskiga Nätet (2000, The Mind's Eye)
  • Återkomsten (2001, The Return)
  • Kvinna med Födelsemärke (2001, Woman with Birthmark)
  • Slangebæreren (2005, The Snakebearer)

Short films:

  • "Stil" (1986, "Essay")
  • "Hyl" (1987, "Howl")
  • "Brr" (1987)
  • Folk flest bor i Kina (2002: segment "SV")
gollark: Tesselation is just covering a plane with tiles with no gaps/overlaps.
gollark: I mean, I think Euclidean geometry applies to 3D too, but we're talking about specifically 2D things here.
gollark: The regular 2D kind.
gollark: <@249056455552925697> You know tesselations of stuff in regular Euclidean geometry, where you have infinite grids of squares and triangles and hexagons and all that?
gollark: I don't actually understand the maths involved well enough to generate those myself, but I was reading the Wikipedia articles on it and thought "hmmm, these patterns are neat, I will use [search engine] image search to find a nice one to use as a profile picture".

References
  1. Szpiro, Mina, Plaskis (September 28, 2005). "Intervju med regissoren Martin Asphaug" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on April 16, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2008.
  2. Hohle Bjønness, Sigrid, Aftenposten (November 21, 2008). "Det er deilig å være norsk i Skåne" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on February 22, 2013.
  3. Svenska Dagbladet (June 5, 2004). "Norrman regisserar Nesserfilm" (in Swedish).
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