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   Published on: 5/12/2003   Last Visited: 5/12/2003

   Lena Einhorn
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   Lena Einhorn, Producer
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   Lena Einhorn is the main producer, director and writer at Lena Einhorn Film. Originally a physician with a PhD in Virology and Tumor Biology from the Karolinska Institute, she changed professional course in the late 1980's. At the time she was living in the United States, and started working as Medical Editor at Lifetime Television in New York, where she eventually also started producing and writing medical documentaries. She continued producing documentaries in science and medicine, for independent production companies as well as for PBS, until 1994 when she returned home to Sweden.
   
   In Sweden, Einhorn became an independent filmmaker, and started making television programs mainly for Sveriges Television (SVT), the Swedish public broadcasting service. After a couple of years, she started a production company, Lena Einhorn Film.
   
   In the beginning mainly focusing on science documentaries, with time the company also started making other types of documentaries, as well as drama-documentaries. In 1997 and 1998, Lena Einhorn Film produced the two-hour drama-documentary "Stateless, arrogant and lunatic" (Handelsresande i liv), a film on rescue operations during the Second World War, which won Prix Europa the following year. The film was to become the basis for a book by Einhorn with the same name, which was published in Sweden (Prisma) in 1999, and in Germany, under the title Menschenhandel unterm Hakenkreuz, (Klett-Cotta) in 2002.
   
   Other films Einhorn has made in the last couple of years include the series From the Shadows of the Past, which she produced together with her colleague Bengt Berg, and the biography Loving Greta Garbo, all of which are currently touring festivals. Lena Einhorn is currently involved in the pre-production of a drama-documentary about her mother, Nina Einhorn, and her experiences during the Second World War, in the Warsaw Ghetto and in hiding. She has also recently finished the film The Riddle of "I" for Swedish Television, and will produce a documentary on Nobel Prize winner Nelly Sachs during the fall of 2002.
   
   Lena Einhorn also composes much of the music in her films. She is a current member of STIM and a former member of ASCAP.