Søren Kragh-Jacobsen was born on 2 March 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark and is one of the country's most respected directors and co-inventor of the "dogme95" project. After becoming a popular musician, he attended film school in Prague and returned to his home country where he made his first feature film Vil du se min smukke navle? (1978). Despite doing several movies, TV projects and commercials, his international breakthrough was the acclaimed Mifunes sidste sang (1999).
