Lukas Moodysson

Full Name: Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson

Lukas Moodysson was born January 17, 1969 in Lund ( South Sweden)

LM: My family were farmers, hard-working farmers in a place called Småland. Småland in Swedish means small land, and it was a difficult place where the ground was full of stones. Then in the 60s my father had the chance to study to become an engineer. He came to the university town of Lund, which is where I was born. He met my mother, who is also from Småland – her father worked in a hardware store. I don't think they were exceptionally alternative in their lifestyle, but they were influenced by the leftist movement.

About Tillsammans; LM: I was the fat neigbour boy watching the Tillsammans movement. A lot of memories from my childhood are in this movie.

LM: When I was 10 or 12 years old Fanny and Alexander was an important film for me. I related very strongly to Alexander – I had the same experience in that my parents also got divorced (in the late seventies).

At 17, He published a collection of poetry, Det spelar ingen roll var blixtarna slår ner (It doesn't matter where the lightning strikes, and then dropped out of school. LM: "I thought it was boring. I just didn’t fit in." He wrote four more anthologies and a novel by age 23 and then he dropped poetry for film. LM :I wanted to do anything else. I just wanted to change everything. I started to get less interested in myself and more interested in the rest of the world. I think as a poet I was really self-absorbed.