Anders Refn

Anders Refn (b. 1944) is a Danish film director and editor. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1969 and has since pursued a varied career in film and television, working as a director, editor and assistant director. His directorial debut, Strømer (1976), was a major critical and commercial success. His subsequent films include The Baron (1978), The Flying Devils (1985) and Black Harvest (1993). In television, he created the series Once a Cop… (1987) and Taxi, one of Denmark’s most successful television series of the 1990s. A longtime collaborator of Lars von Trier, Refn edited Breaking the Waves (1996) and Antichrist (2009), and served as assistant director on several of the director’s films. In 2004, he received an Honorary Bodil Award in recognition of his contribution to Danish cinema. Anders Refn is the father of director Nicolas Winding Refn.