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| birth_place = Turku, Grand Duchy of Finland1983169df=yes}}| death_place = Enskededalen, Sweden| occupation = Film criticScreenwriter| yearsactive = 1923-1965}}Bengt Idestam-Almquist (9 September 1895 – 16 September 1983) was a Swedish screenwriter, critic and film historian. The Swedish Film Institute calls him the "father of Swedish film criticism".WEB,weblink Bengt Idestam-Almquist, 1 March 2014, The Swedish Film Database, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140311135504weblink">weblink 11 March 2014, At the 3rd Guldbagge Awards he won a Special Achievement award.WEB,weblink Bengt Idestam-Almquist, 1 March 2014, The Swedish Film Database, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140311135457weblink">weblink 11 March 2014, He was a member of the jury at the 15th Venice International Film Festival in 1954.WEB,weblinkweblink dead, 12 May 2021, Juries for the 1950s, 8 October 2013, Idestam-Almquist, who was the son of a Riksvensk father and a Swedish-speaking Finn mother, was born in Turku, Finland, and grew up in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. He later fled to Sweden with his family during the February Revolution and studied art history in Uppsala. His fascination with film came after watching a silent film with a benshi while serving the Red Cross in Asia.WEB,weblink Bengt Idestam-Almquist, Forslund, Bengt, 2012, Swedish Film Database, sv, 10 September 2020, He was the first cousin of Dag Hammarskjöld. He was awarded the Illis quorum in 1983.WEB, January 2006, Regeringens belöningsmedaljer och regeringens utmärkelse: Professors namn,weblinkweblink 2021-11-02, 2022-05-18, Regeringskansliet, sv,

Selected filmography

• A Crime (1940)
• A Real Man (1940)
• The Three of Us (1940)
• Life Goes On (1941)
• The Poor Millionaire (1941)

References

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External links

• {{IMDb name|0406877|Bengt Idestam-Almquist}}
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