Director Göran Carmback was born in Södertälje, a city
south of Stockholm. His father worked as a projectionist and Göran
became interested in films when he was very young. After having left
school he too started out as a projectionist, at Nordisk Tonefilm, and
at the same he also began working as a sound balancer. He soon became
one of the most skilled sound balancers in Sweden, participating at the
making of more than forty Swedish films, working together with, among
others Bo Widerberg "All Things Fair" and Lasse Hallström "My Life as a
Dog". Göran continued to work as a sound balancer until 1988.
His dream was to become a producer, though, and he got the opportunity
to make the dream come through when Svensk Filmindustri (SF) asked him
to be the director of a series of films for children. So, in 1988 Göran
Carmback directed two stories by Astrid Lindgren: "My very own sister"
and "There are no robbers in the forrest" and in 1996 he directed the
feature film "The Master Detective lives dangerously" (Kalle Blomkvist
Mästerdetektiven lever farligt). He also directed the feature film1939. The film was a great success - more than a half million people in
Sweden saw the film, an impressing number considering the fact that the
film is three hours long.
Göran Carmback also directed several parts of a very popular Swedish
soap-opera made for television," Three Crowns" (Tre Kronor).
