# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henning-carlsen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:07:33.464Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henning-carlsen"
name: "Henning Carlsen"
slug: "henning-carlsen"
description: "Henning Carlsen was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger (Sult) was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart. Acting as his own producer since 1960, Carlsen has directed more than 25 films, 19 for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2006, he received the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival."
tagline: "Danish film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor (1927-2014)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tuDZNAEGJkwOiI6N5YALsm1yEk7.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-06-04"
deathDate: "2014-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.813953488372093
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0137830"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump