Kalle Boman

Swedish film producer

Kalle Boman
Born	(1943-04-05) 5 April 1943 (age 81)
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation	Film producer
Awards	Guldbagge Honorary Award

Karl-Axel "Kalle" Boman (born 5 April 1943) is a Swedish film producer based in Gothenburg who has been involved in many works in Swedish cinema for over 50 years.^[1]^[2]

Raised in Södermalm, he was exposed to a theatre school as a boy through a friend, and had a small role in Ingmar Bergman's 1949 film Prison.^[1] As a producer, Boman established his studio in Stockholm, but seeking more space, relocated it to Norrsundet.^[1]

In 2014, he received the Guldbagge Honorary Award.^[1] That year, with director Ruben Östlund, Boman entered an art installation into the Vandalorum Museum in Värnamo, with the artists' statement "The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations."^[3] This inspired Östlund's 2017 Palme d'Or-winning film The Square.^[3]

Filmography

His films include:^[2]

The White Game (1968)
A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Giliap (1975)
You, the Living (2007)
Eat Sleep Die (2012)
Force Majeure (2014)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sjödin, Anne (6 July 2014). "Vem tusan är Kalle Boman?". Arbetarbladet. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Kalle Boman". Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b Page, Thomas (24 May 2017). "Cannes 2017: 'The Square' skewers the dark side of the art world". CNN. Retrieved 28 May 2017.