Suzanne Osten
Swedish film director (1944–2024)
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- Carlota Suzanne Osten (20 June 1944 – 28 October 2024) was a Swedish film director, stage director, and screenwriter.
- Biography Suzanne Osten was born in Stockholm on 20 June 1944.
- In 1963, Osten graduated from Viggbyholmsskolan, a high school with a curriculum focused on language and creative subjects.
- She had a daughter with documentary filmmaker Rainer Hartleb.
- She had undergone heart surgery before her death.
Carlota Suzanne Osten (20 June 1944 – 28 October 2024) was a Swedish film director, stage director, and screenwriter. She won the award for Best Director at the 22nd Guldbagge Awards for the film The Mozart Brothers.
Biography
Suzanne Osten was born in Stockholm on 20 June 1944. She was the daughter of toolmaker Karl Otto Osten (1912–1970), a German social democrat and resistance fighter who fled to Sweden from the Nazi regime, and film critic Gerd Osten (born Ekbom), whose frustrating efforts to direct film in the male-dominated film industry are the subject matter of her daughter Suzanne's debut film Mamma (1982). Her parents were married in 1941 but divorced when Suzanne Osten was little. In 1963, Osten graduated from Viggbyholmsskolan, a high school with a curriculum focused on language and creative subjects. She then studied art, literature and history at Lund University, where she began directing at the university theater.
She had a daughter with documentary filmmaker Rainer Hartleb.
Osten died on 28 October 2024, at the age of 80. She had undergone heart surgery before her death.
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