Nils Vest

Nils Vest

actor, director, writer

Nils Vest was born on Jun 19, 1943 in Denmark. Nils Vest's big-screen debut came with Snusketown - en western fra Alaska - Season 1 directed by Frits Raben in 1970, strarring Various.

The Danish documentarist Nils Vest was raised in a bourgeois environment in Sweden. When he and his family moved to Denmark in the 1950s he went to boarding school at Herlufsholm and later got a degree in engineering. However, he did not follow the suggested path, and instead he became a film director with an education from the film school in Copenhagen in 1970. His first films were about local, but transcending subjects: the liberalized porn market, the free community of Christiania, etc. He also moved to Christiania with partner

  • Birthday

    Jun 19, 1943
  • Place of Birth

    Copenhagen, Denmark

Awards

1 wins & 0 nominations

Montréal International Festival of Films on Art
1999
Himmelstigen (1997)
Winner - Best Educational Film