Background
SUCKSDORFF, Arne was born on February 3, 1917.
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SUCKSDORFF, Arne was born on February 3, 1917.
Stockholm.
documentaries: Shadow over the Snow, Cliff Face, The Open Road, Rhythm of a City, Summer Interlude, Indian Village, and The Divided World; feature films: The Great Adventure, The Flute and the Arrow, The Boy in the Tree.He was particularly celebrated for his visually poetic and scenic nature documentaries. Perhaps Sucksdorff"s most widely admired work was the internationally acclaimed Det Stora Äventyret (1953) (The Great Adventure) about a year in the outdoors told in semidocumentary fashion from the viewpoint of a farmboy. lieutenant is noted for its remarkable photography and authentic scenes of nature, and its appeal to children for its story of domesticated otters.
Sucksdorff also appeared as an actor in this film, portraying the father, while his real-life son is an actor as well.
In the early 1960s, Sucksdorff moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he taught cinema at the film school and continued making documentaries, as well as the documentary-style drama Mitt hem är Copacabana (My Home Is Copacabana). The film was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
In later life, he became an outspoken critic of deforestation and a fervent environmentalist. Sucksdorff"s last film was the 1971 feature Cry of the Penguins (also titled Mr Forbush and the Penguins), starring John Hurt and Hayley Mills.
He died of pneumonia in 2001 at his birthplace, Stockholm, Sweden.