Ove Brusendorff

Ove Brusendorff was the founder, in 1941, of Denmark's film archive (first a modest Department of Dansk Kulturfilm, then the Danske Filmmuseum), and its director until 1960, when he was succeeded by Ib Monty. He also played an active role in FIAF from the moment the Danske Filmmuseum was admitted as a FIAF member in 1948, a year when he hosted the second post-war FIAF Congress. He served as FIAF Treasurer from 1948 to 1952, and as Honorary Vice-President from 1956 to 1960. In 1960, he took over a cinema in Copenhagen and transformed a shabby second-run cinema into one of Copenhagen's most exciting art-house cinemas. He remained a member of the Dansk Filmmuseum’s Board for a number of years. He also published and authored a number of histories and anthologies of eroticism.

"Over Brusendorff (1909-1986), Bulletin FIAF, Issue 32, September 1986, p.1