Göran Carmback

Director Göran Carmback was born in Södertälje, a city south of Stockholm. His father worked as a projectionist and Göran became interested in films when he was very young. After having left school he too started out as a projectionist, at Nordisk Tonefilm, and at the same he also began working as a sound balancer. He soon became one of the most skilled sound balancers in Sweden, participating at the making of more than forty Swedish films, working together with, among others Bo Widerberg "All Things Fair" and Lasse Hallström "My Life as a Dog". Göran continued to work as a sound balancer until 1988. His dream was to become a producer, though, and he got the opportunity to make the dream come through when Svensk Filmindustri (SF) asked him to be the director of a series of films for children. So, in 1988 Göran Carmback directed two stories by Astrid Lindgren: "My very own sister" and "There are no robbers in the forrest" and in 1996 he directed the feature film "The Master Detective lives dangerously" (Kalle Blomkvist * Mästerdetektiven lever farligt). He also directed the feature film 1939. The film was a great success - more than a half million people in Sweden saw the film, an impressing number considering the fact that the film is three hours long. Göran Carmback also directed several parts of a very popular Swedish soap-opera made for television," Three Crowns" (Tre Kronor).