Alf Sjöberg

Alf Sjöberg (born June 21, 1903, Stockholm, Swed.—died April 17, 1980, Stockholm) was a Swedish motion-picture director whose films were preeminent in the post-World War II Swedish film revival. He broke with the stage traditions that were inhibiting the artistic development of the Swedish cinema and was among the first to use a lyrical style that was further developed by the filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Sjöberg was trained as an actor and stage producer and studied...