Biography
Mogens Rukov (4 August 1943 – 18 December 2015) was a Danish screenwriter and playwright. He co-wrote the screenplay for The Celebration (1998) with Thomas Vinterberg.
Rukov earned a university degree in Nordic philology and film in 1974. He taught at the National Film School of Denmark from 1975, helped establish its screenwriting department in 1985 and headed it until 2008.
He worked as a script consultant on The Idiots (1998) and co-wrote or contributed to several other films, including Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001), It's All About Love (2003), Reconstruction (2003) and The Inheritance (2003). He received a Robert Award for the screenplay of The Celebration.
