Åke Falck (3 April 1925 – 12 October 1974) was a Swedish

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. He directed 13 films between 1958 and 1972. His 1966 film '' The Princess'' was entered into the

5th Moscow International Film Festival The 5th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1967. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film '' The Journalist'', directed by Sergei Gerasimov and the Hungarian film ''Father'', directed by István Szabó. The f ...

. He married in 1949 the singer Brita Nordström (1925–2005) with whom he had a son Peter Emanuel Falck in 1952. In 1960 he remarried to the TV producer Karin Sohlman and had a daughter Carolina Falck in 1961. Åke Falck was buried on 12 November 1974 at Djursholm's cemetery in the municipality of Danderyd. Åke Falcks Gata in the Torp district of Gothenburg was named after him in 2011.Sveriges Släktforskarförbund/Sveriges kyrkogårdsförvaltningar, Begravda i Sverige 2.

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* * 1925 births 1974 deaths Swedish film directors Mass media people from Gothenburg 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-film-director-stub