Swedish director and screenwriter. He studied political science, language and theatre at the Lund University from 1970 to 1973. The following year, he started working first as a radio drama writer, then in film as a screenwriter and assistant director. He debuted as director in 1978 with Gänget. During the eighties he directed TV films, and at the beginning of the nineties, a short TV series. After medium-length Den femtonde hövdingen (1992), he makes his first theatrical feature film, Glädjekällan (1993). That film was the first in a cycle of seven films on the subject of the seven deadly sins. Following always the same family, but with every film in a separate genre, he films Höst i paradiset (1995), Spring för livet (1997), Ögat (1998), Där regnbågen slutar (1999) and The Birthday (Födelsedagen, 2000). With the drama Alla älskar Alice (2002), he achieves success with both the audience and the critics, but the following film, Tre solar (2004), fails to repeat its success. The psychological drama Harrys döttrar (2005) was more successful. During the next several years he concentrates on writing theatrical plays, and in 2011 he successfully comes back to film with En enkel till Antibes.