Jens Peter Hammerich, better known as Rumle Hammerich (born 16 November 1954), is a Danish

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and film company director. He is currently creative director at

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. His filmography consists of both feature films and

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s and

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in Denmark as well as Sweden. His mini series

Young Andersen ''Young Andersen'' ( Danish: Unge Andersen) is a 2005 two-part Danish television serial directed by Rumle Hammerich and co-written by Hammerich and Ulf Stark. It chronicles the formative boarding school years of fairy tale writer Hans Christia ...

—which describes the formative

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years of

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— won an

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for Best international TV Movie/Mini Series in 2005. His crime series

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() won the 2009

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for the best television drama series.

Biography

Jens Peter Hammerich was born on 16 November 1954 in

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to translator Ida Elisabeth Hammerich and

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, journalist, writer and

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at the national Danish newspaper

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. From an early age he was called Rumle and when his father in 1959 asked her mother to translate Charles M. Schulz's comic strip

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for Politiken, she gave the perpetually dirty boy

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her son's nickname. He graduated from the

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in 1979, and had his debut as a feature film director in 1983 with the children film ''Otto er et næsehorn'' "Otto Is a Rhino". After working in

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in the early 1990s, directing films such as the horror film

Svart Lucia ''Svart Lucia'' (lit. "Black Lucia" or "Black Saint Lucy's Day") is a Swedish-Danish film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 11 December 1992, directed by Rumle Hammerich. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards Tova Magnusson Norling was nominated ...

and the children film '' Kan du vissla Johanna?'', he was made the director of national Danish television station DR's fiction department in 1994. In 1998 he left DR and the following year he joined

, where he led the subsidiary Nordisk Film Produktion until 2003 when he was made creative director of the company.

Filmography

Film

Producer * ''Cliff Forrest'' (2007) (Documentary) Executive producer * '' Once in a Lifetime'' (2000) * ''

Lykkevej ''Move Me'' () is a 2003 Danish comedy film directed by Morten Arnfred. Birthe Neumann received both a Robert Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and a Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role as Sara. Cast * Birthe N ...

'' (2003) * ''En som Hodder'' (2003) * '' Facing the Truth'' (2002) (Documentary) Associate producer * ''

I Am Dina ''I Am Dina'' is a 2002 Norway, Norwegian-Sweden, Swedish-Denmark, Danish film directed by Ole Bornedal. It is based on the 1989 book ''Dinas bok'' (''Dina's Book'') by Herbjørg Wassmo. It was one of the most high-profile films in Norway, Nor ...

'' (2002) Co-producer * ''Suxxess'' (2002) Creative producer * ''

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'' (2004)

Television

Executive producer * ''

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'' (1998) * ''Rundt om Panduro'' (1998) * ''

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'' (1 episode, 2002) * ''Forsvar'' (2003) TV movies

References

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