Kalle Boman

Kalle Boman
Born (1943-04-05) 5 April 1943 (age 81)
NationalitySwedish
OccupationFilm producer
AwardsGuldbagge Honorary Award

Karl-Axel "Kalle" Boman (born 5 April 1943) is a Swedish film producer based in Gothenburg who has been involved in many works in Swedish cinema for over 50 years.[1][2]

Raised in Södermalm, he was exposed to a theatre school as a boy through a friend, and had a small role in Ingmar Bergman's 1949 film Prison.[1] As a producer, Boman established his studio in Stockholm, but seeking more space, relocated it to Norrsundet.[1]

In 2014, he received the Guldbagge Honorary Award.[1] That year, with director Ruben Östlund, Boman entered an art installation into the Vandalorum Museum in Värnamo, with the artists' statement "The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations."[3] This inspired Östlund's 2017 Palme d'Or-winning film The Square.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d Sjödin, Anne (6 July 2014). "Vem tusan är Kalle Boman?". Arbetarbladet. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Kalle Boman". Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  3. ^ a b Page, Thomas (24 May 2017). "Cannes 2017: 'The Square' skewers the dark side of the art world". CNN. Retrieved 28 May 2017.