Peter Kropénin was born in 1945 in Stockholm, Sweden. He began his career as a sound engineer for Radio North Channel, an illegal radio station onboard a ship sailing the Baltic Sea. After a Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the Stockholm School of Economics, he received a grant to study Film Producing at the University of Southern California.
Starting 1972, Kropénin has worked on more than 30 feature films. Valuable experience has been gained through work with Ingmar Bergman and in close cooperation with most Swedish and Nordic large production companies, distributors and Film Institutes. Since 1989 Kropénin has been producing for his own company Omega Film & Television AB. In 2001 Kropénin started Omega Film AB together with producer Lennart Dunér. From 2006 Kropénin is again working at his old company, now with a new name, Hob AB, with offices in Stockholm and Luleå (Northern Sweden). Besides producing full-length feature films, Kropénin has initiated and produced a number of prizewinning short films and documentaries.

HOB AB

Hob AB is a brand new Swedish production company founded by Peter Kropénin with Martin Kjellberg and Ingela Lekfalk. Kropénin, who produced the acclaimed Wings of Glass in 2000, is now helping the Iranian-born filmmaker Reza Bagher and his Polish colleague Agnieszka Likasiak, to shoot their new film Honour, about Muslim girls in Sweden, victims of their families’ “code of honour”. The project was one of the 22 films chosen out of 348 international potential candidates for the Berlinale co-production market. This will be the first production made for Hob AB.