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Possne leaves Sonet after 29 years and more than 70 productions

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- Swedish producer Peter Possne, whose most recent film Nobody Owns Me went straight to the top on the local charts, “simply wants to do something else with his life”

Possne leaves Sonet after 29 years and more than 70 productions
Peter Possne

Swedish producer Peter Possne, who co-founded Stockholm-based Sonet Film in 1984 and followed the company as CEO when it was acquired by Swedish major Svensk Filmindustri from Modern Times Group in 2007, has decided to leave the company.

“I have run Sonet Film for more than half of my life – it has been a long, intense, fantastic and joyful journey. Now I simply want to do something else with my life and be open to new and exciting experiences,” he said in a press release yesterday (December 2).

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Possne’s most recent film, Swedish director Kjell-Åke Andersson’s Nobody Owns Me [+see also:
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, starring Mikael Persbrandt and Ida Engvoll in an adaption of Åsa Lindeborg’s novel, went straight to the top on the local charts, when Svensk released it on November 8.

In total Possne has produced or coproduced more than 70 Swedish features, (with Svensk) including Ella Lemhagen’sPatrik, Age 1.5 [+see also:
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(
2008), Babak Najafi’s Sebbe [+see also:
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and Andreas Öhman’s Simple Simon [+see also:
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(2010), Lena Koppel’s The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes [+see also:
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(2011), Lasse Hallström’s The Hypnotist [+see also:
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(2012).

One of his latest assignments was to instigate a new department for TV drama productions at the Swedish major, which is now developing a number of films from the books of such authors as Kerstin Ekman, Henning Mankell, Håkan Nesser, Anne Holt.

Wishing Possne “all the luck in his future endeavours,” Svensk newly-appointed CEO Jonas Fors added that the company is currently discussing how to organise future in-house production, after it announced three months ago (September 4) the purchase Stockholm-based production outfit Tre Vänner.

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