Andrésen lived a turbulent childhood due to the premature deaths of his parents; However, it did not prevent him from developing a rich acting career in films such as Death in Venicea film that positioned him as an outstanding figure of Swedish cinema.
MADRID, Oct. 27 (EUROPA PRESS).- The actor y musician Björn Andrésen passed away at 70 years old, as confirmed by filmmaker Kristian Petri to the swedish newspaper Today’s Newswhich reminds us that the filmmaker Luchino Visconti He called it “the most handsome boy in the world“, title of documentary of Petri y Kristina Lindström about the life of Andresen.
He deceased performer had a supporting role in a love storyof Roy Anderson in 1970, but his big opportunity came in 1971 with the film Death in Veniceof Visconti.
His documentary film was released in 2021 and the following year it won the Award for Best Television Documentary at the Prix Europa festival, after several years of filming.
“Kristina and I had been talking for a long time about making a feature film about Björn. The idea was that he would tell his own story, and we talked to him for a whole year before we started shooting. Then we shot for several years, and it was a fun and sometimes painful shoot,” Kristian Petri told Today’s News.
He personified beauty in “Death in Venice” under the orders of Luchino Visconti, a fact that marked the rest of his life.
Björn Andrésen, the most beautiful boy in the world, has died at the age of 70. pic.twitter.com/FU4dkjyPaj
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Petri remembers that Death in Venice It was something “very important” for Andrésen and a project that “he could never forget.” “It was there all the time, for better or worse. But I realized I didn’t feel like talking about it at the time,” he said.
Andrésen was born in Stockholm in 1955 and had a childhood marked by the loss of his father in an accident and his mother who committed suicide when he was 10 years old. The actor grew up with his grandmother, who encouraged him to get into modeling and acting.
At the age of 15 he had the opportunity to Death in Venicewhere he played Tadzio, with whom an older man played by Dirk Bogarde becomes obsessed. During his career, Andrésen participated in more than 30 films and television series, most of them in Sweden.
Andrésen had two children, Robine and Elvin, who died of sudden death from infant syndrome at nine months of age, a blow that plunged the artist into depression.
RIP Björn Johan Andrésen 1955-2025 pic.twitter.com/DhGdVY4K7Z
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