Tomas Alfredson

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Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film producer best known for directing Let the Right One In and the 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Alfredson has been given the Guldbagge award for Best Direction twice, as well as in 2008 for Let the Right One In. He is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson.

Early life

Alfredson was born in 1965 in Lidingö, Sweden, son of Gunilla and writer Erika Schnin, as well as director Hans "Hasse" Alfredson. From an early age, Tomas was used to being treated differently. Alfredson said of his father, "A small] number of people were public property, and he was one of them." Hasse was never home, and Tomas was mainly raised by his mother. "I was fortunate to attend [Hasse's] film productions every summer, but it was also a way for us to meet each other (...) "I thought it was great fun."

Alfredson would often appear in a minor film in Hasse-edition series that featured the comedy-duo of his father and Tage Danielsson (1971), as well as the role of the "Count" in The Apple War (1971), his only line of dialogue being "Adieu, my pleasure."

Personal life

Alfredson is the brother of film producer Daniel Alfredson. He and his ex-wife Cissi Elwin Frenkel, the Swedish Film Institute's managing director, have two children. He lives in Stockholm.

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Directing career

Alfredson's career began as an assistant at Svensk Filmindustri, where he worked as an assistant. He was instrumental in the creation of the Swedish television channel TV4, where he worked in the entertainment industry. Fort Boyard's Swedish version, "Fengarna p Fortet," was one of his triumphs. Alfredson went on to Sveriges Television, producing television series such as Ikas TV-kalas, a children's television program starring Ika Nord, which would later appear in Alfredson's 2008 film Let the Right One In. Alfredson was "only 25, but already extremely knowledgeable," according to Nord. Bert, another tv production based on the Bert diaries, was a popular series of teenage novels published in the diary style in 1994 by Alfredson. Bert: The Last Virgin, a comedy film based on the series, was released in 1995 in which Alfredson received a Guldbagge award for Best Direction.

In 1999, Alfredson joined Killinggänget as a producer. "I thought they were a little more amusing than the others and a little more comprehensive," he said. His first film with the company was the mockumentary Screwed in Tallinn, which depicts a group of Swedish bachelors who travel to Estonia by bus in the hopes of finding Estonian girlfriends. Killinggänget's only feature film to date, the 2004 film Four Shades of Brown, directed by Alfredson. Four unrelated stories with a common theme of betrayal were interwoven in the film, in particular, parents betraying their children. Four Guldbagge awards, including Best Direction for Alfredson, were given to the film.

In 2004, Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist published his debut horror book Let the Right One In. Alfredson wanted to participate in a film adaptation after reading the book, so he approached Lindqvist: "They [sic] was a crowd of people yelling on his door to make a film, so I was #40 or something." He knew of me and he liked what I'd done before, and we got along very well. In the early 1980s Blackeberg, Sweden, a 12-year-old boy befriends a teenage vampire. Alfredson produced the film in collaboration with Dino Jonsäter in addition to directing.

Let the Right One Premiership at the Göteborg International Film Festival in 2008 premiered, where Alfredson was awarded the festival's Nordic Film Award. At the Tribeca Film Festival, the film continued to win additional prizes, including the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature. The film became a worldwide hit, with the rights being sold to more than forty countries soon after its theatrical debut on October 24, 2008. The film received five Guldbagge Awards in the United States, with Alfredson receiving his second Guldbagge Award for Best Direction.

Alfredson also announced that he would not make any more films in the "foreseeable future" after finishing the project on Let the Right One In. He said he had grown frustrated with the Swedish film and television industry, which he described as "drained of hope, courage, and gravity." Despite numerous offers from Hollywood producers, he was reluctant to leave his "home, children, and all the coworkers I rely on to be healthy." However, he did reveal in March 2009 that he would be involved in a major international film festival. Alfredson was hired to produce a film version of John le Carré's 1974 book Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in July 2009. It was directed by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, and premiered in September 2011 at the Venice International Film Festival.

It was revealed in 2012 that Alfredson had won the rights to make a film version of Astrid Lindgren's book The Brothers Lionheart, with Alfredson planning to direct and John Ajvide Lindqvist writing the script.

The Snowman, a widely disliked film, was directed by Alfredson in 2017. Despite Jo Nesb's all-star cast and a hit book series, critics had sluggish feedback and received a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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