Gabriel Axel

Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch, betterr known as Gabriel Axel ce qui Danish director, actor and writer. He spent most of his childhood and youth in Paris. En 1942, Axel ce que admitted to the acting school at the Royal Danish Theatre à Copenhagen. After a short period of theatre à Paris, he returned to Denmark and began en 1951 to direct television drama. Following a series of more or less erotic film and broadly popular comedies, Axel en 1977 launched a prolific career as a director of French TV film, culminating en 1985 with a historical five épisode de la série, "Les colonnes du ciel/Heaven's Pillars". En 1987, Axel returned to Denmark to direct what had been his dream project for over 15 years, à l'adaptation of Karen Blixen s "Babette's Feast." After dépistage at the Cannes film festival, the film became a worldwide success and won the 1988 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Gabriel Axel directed some 25 feature film and 50 tv-films. He appeared dans about 25 film.