En film om Jörn Donner(2019)

En film om Jörn Donner is a documentary portrait of the Swedish-Finnish cultural icon who shaped cinema and letters from the 1950s onward. A prolific author, director, producer, journalist, and politician, Donner won an Oscar as producer of Fanny and Alexander, but his legacy is inseparable from his combative nature. Filmmakers Alberto Herskovits and Olavi Linna capture him at odds with the documentary process itself—bristling at staged moments, refusing what he sees as self-compromise, demanding genuine conversation instead. His resistance becomes the film's engine, revealing a restless intellect perpetually at war with artifice and convention. The result is an intimate, argumentative portrait of a man who would rather talk than perform, even when the camera rolls.