Director

Fredrik Gertten

Directing

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Directed movies: 10Directed series: 0All crew credits: 13

TMDB ID: 115279

IMDb ID: nm0314995

Known for: Directing

Born: April 3, 1956

Age: 69

Place of birth: Malmö, Sweden

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1998 - 2023

Years active: 26

Average TMDB rating: 6.88

Wikidata: Q5499462

Also known as

Carl Fredrik (von) Gertten • Carl Fredrik Gertten

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Director (10)Executive Producer (2)Writer (1)

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Biography

Carl Fredrik (von) Gertten was a Swedish filmmaker and journalist. Gertten had a prolific career spanning journalism across continents—Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe—through the 1980s and 1990s. In 1995, he authored the travel book "Ung man söker världen" (Young Man Looking for the World) under the Gong Gong förlag publishing. His journalistic contributions extended to newspapers like Arbetet until its closure in 2000 and Kvällsposten from 2001 to 2003. Gertten ventured into television production, producing documentaries and entertainment shows for Swedish channels SVT, TV 4, and TV 3. Notably, in 2009, his production company faced a defamation lawsuit from Dole Food Company following the US screening of "Bananas!"—a documentary exploring a conflict between Dole and Nicaraguan banana plantation workers over alleged sterility cases linked to the pesticide DBCP. The court eventually ruled in favor of Gertten's production company, inspiring his 2011 documentary "Big Boys Gone Bananas!" highlighting the legal battle.

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