Christian Braad Thomsen

Director, author, producer and distributor. Born 1940. Educated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1969. Christian Braad Thomsen has established himself as an incisive culture critic and film writer as well as a passionate defender of arthouse cinema. His artistic and ideological orientation is reflected in his books on Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alfred Hitchcock and the French New Wave directors. Braad Thomsen has also played an important role as an importer and distributor of arthouse films.

Braad Thomsen made his film debut with the feature film "Dear Irene" (1971), with later titles including "Ladies on the Rocks" (1983), "Karen Blixen - Storyteller" (documentary film, 1995), and "The Blue Monk" (1998).

Braad Thomsen's interest in memory and Freudian concepts are evident in many of his works, including the feature films "Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die" (1979) and "Stab in the Heart" (1981), as well as the documentaries "Wellspring of My World" (1976) and "Flowers of Memory" (1991).

Among Braad Thomsen's later films are "The Voice of Iran - Mohammad Reza Shajarian" (2006), "Marilyn Mazur - Queen of Percussion" (2006) and "Blues for Montmartre" (2011).

Thomsen's second documentary about the German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder "Fassbinder - to Love Without Demands" premiered at the Berlinale in 2015.