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Henrik Ruben Genz (born 7 November 1959 in Gram, Denmark) is a Danish film director. Before becoming involved with film, Genz attended Designskolen Kolding, where he studied graphic design,〔Hjort, Mette, Eva Jorholt, and Eva Novrup Redvall. ''The Danish Directors 2: Dialogues on the New Danish Fiction Cinema'', Intellect Books, 2010, p. 111. ISBN 1-84150-271-5〕 after giving up on an earlier dream of being a painter.〔Hjort, Jorholt, and Redvall, p. 112〕 While there, he did some work with video, and a chance meeting with director Arne Bro encouraged him to pursue film as a career.〔Hjort, Jorholt, and Redvall, p. 113〕 Genz was then accepted into the National Film School of Denmark at the age of 31, graduating after completing the well-regarded short film ''Cross Roads'' (Danish title: Omveje, ''Detours'') in 1995.〔 Genz's next work, the short film ''Theis and Nico'' (Danish title: Bror, min bror, ''Brother, my brother''), released in 1999, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. He then became involved with the Dogme 95 movement, but was unable to produce any quality work after six months of effort.〔Zwol, Coen. "(Director Henrik Ruben Genz on 'Terribly Happy' )", NRC Handelsblad, November 4, 2009.〕 Speaking later about his difficulty in trying to work under the Dogme restrictions, he described himself as a "visual director" and Dogme as a movement where "the camera follows the () and choice means nothing".〔 In 2003, Genz released his first feature film, an adaptation of the children's book ''Someone like Hodder'' (Danish title: ''En som Hodder'') by popular writer Bjarne Reuter.〔 He followed it in 2005 with ''Chinaman'' (Danish title: ''Kinamand''), a romantic comedy about a man who takes a foreign wife in an arranged marriage so that she can obtain permission for residency, and then falls in love with her.〔 Genz returned to his roots in 2008, adapting (with Dunja Gry Jensen) a novel by fellow Gram native Erling Jepsen into the film ''Terribly Happy''.〔 In their youths, Genz and Jepsen had been childhood acquaintances who lived across the street from one another.〔Olsen, Mark. "(Danish 'Terribly Happy' full of odd happenings )", The Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2010.〕 It won numerous awards, including the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. ==Filmography== * ''Good People'' (2014) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henrik Ruben Genz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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