Age, Biography and Wiki
Who is it? | Director, Producer, Cinematographer |
Birth Day | June 24, 1960 |
Birth Place | Oslo, Norway, Norway |
Age | 63 YEARS OLD |
Birth Sign | Cancer |
Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, former cinematographer and press photographer |
Spouse(s) | Kirsten Thorseth Poppe |
Net worth: $7 Million (2024)
Erik Poppe, the talented Norwegian filmmaker, has established his name as a prominent figure in the film industry. With his exceptional talents as a director, producer, and cinematographer, Poppe has captivated audiences worldwide with his compelling storytelling and visually stunning imagery. As a result of his success, his net worth is projected to reach an impressive $7 million by 2024. Poppe's dedication to his craft and his ability to bring stories to life on the silver screen have undoubtedly contributed to his financial success, making him a respected figure in the film industry.
Biography/Timeline
He graduated as a Cinematographer at Dramatiska Institutet - University College of Film, Radio, Television and Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden in 1991. He have conducted several artistic and directorial research programs between 2001 and 2010.
Erik Poppe worked as Director of Photography on several features, as well as EGGS (1995) by Bent Hamer. He was awarded with the Kodak Award at the Moscow International Film Festival and won the Cinematographer of the year award in Norway. By receiving the Kodak Award he announced his end of work as Director of Photography.
He is best known for directing critically acclaimed films including Hawaii, Oslo (2004), A Thousand Times Good Night (2013) and The King's Choice (2016).
Troubled Water made history at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2008 by being the first feature to win both the festival's Golden Starfish for Best Narrative Feature and the Audience Award.
Fugelli was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. In 2015 he said no to further treatment and allowed his close friend, Director Erik Poppe to follow him as far as possible on this journey. The result is I DIE (Siste resept) a film about life and how to live it to the very end.
A Thousand Times Good Night (2013, aka: 1000 Times Good Night, Tusen Ganger God Natt) was Poppe's first English-language movie. The film is partly an autobiographical story based on Poppe experiences as a conflict Photographer. Poppe switched the lead roles around making the French Actress Juliette Binoche as his proxy, and Game of Throne's -Nicolaj Coster-Waldau playing the character based on Poppe's wife. A standing ovation greeted Montreal World Film Festival´s world premiere of the film, which went on to earn the Jury´s Special Grand Prix.
In 2015 Poppe concluded a PhD as a research fellow at the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and as an Associated Professor at HIL, Lillehammer University College/ The Norwegian Film School. "The Subjective Objective" is an exploration on how to achieve increased emotionally outcome by the use of a highly personalized and strictly subjectively point of view in conscious narrative film. -Is it possible to achieve a stronger identification, empathy and a greater involvement for the spectator by applying a strict enforcement of the subjective point of view? -A point of view who never allows the filmmaker to show for the spectator more than the film's protagonist are seeing or experiencing at any time.
In June 2017 it was announced that Erik Poppe had worked for a year on developing a feature film about the 2011 terrorist attack on Utøya outside Oslo, Norway. The film, entitled U, begins 12 minutes before the first shot on Utøya as we meet Kaja (18), her little sister, and their friends at summer camp. When the shooting begins panic spreads, and over the next 72 minutes we follow Kaja in her escape – minute by minute. She becomes separated from her little sister, and in the search for her she finds other youngsters with different strategies for survival. Some make it, others do not. U (Utøya - 22.juli) is a fictional account of events which will tell the story from the young people’s perspective, based on a series of in-depth interviews conducted with survivors from Utøya. Some of them was on set behind the camera while filming took place in September 2017 to help give the narrative credibility.
The King’s Choice (”Kongens nei”) was the Amanda jury’s clear favorite at 2017’s awards as well. Nominated for a record 13 Amandas — Norway’s national film prizes — it snagged eight.