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Gabriel Axel
Director 1918 - 2014

Gabriel Axel

Aarhus, Denmark

Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch, better known as Gabriel Axel was a Danish director, actor and writer. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Paris. In 1942 Axel was admitted to the acting school at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. After a short period of theatre in Paris,... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

5 titles
Lumière et compagnie

Lumière et compagnie

Liv Ullmann, David Lynch 1995 1h 28m 6.0

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Prince of Jutland

Prince of Jutland

Gabriel Axel 1994 1h 47m

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.

Babettes gæstebud

Babettes gæstebud

Gabriel Axel 1987 1h 44m 7.9

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

Det kære legetøj

Det kære legetøj

Gabriel Axel 1968 1h 31m

A look at what happened when Denmark abolished censorship in the late 1960s.

Det tossede paradis

Det tossede paradis

Gabriel Axel 1962 1h 35m

Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.

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