Lars von Trier
Birthday: 1956-04-30
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Biography: Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches. He is known for his female-centric parables and his exploration of controversial subject matter. Von Trier began making his own films at the age of 11 after receiving a Super-8 camera as a gift, and his first publicly released film was an experimental short called The Orchid Gardener, in 1977. His first feature film came seven years later, The Element of Crime, in 1984. As of 2010, he has directed a further 10 feature films, 5 short films and 4 television productions. He has been married twice and is currently married to Bente Frøge. Von Trier suffers periodically from depression, as well as various fears and phobias, including an intense fear of flying. As he himself once put it, "Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking".
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The Boss of It All
The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is th...
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Europa
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politica...
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The Five Obstructions
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starri...
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… But Film Is My Mistress
Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman i...
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Epidemic
A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and real...
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Lars von Trier: The Burden From Donald Duck
Lars von Trier was interviewed by Christian Lund at his home outside Copenhagen in November 2020....
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that ...
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Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with vo...
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Von Trier's 100 Eyes
Although at first sight this might look like a simple ‘making of DANCER IN THE DARK’, the later deve...
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Colors
The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without t...
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Dogville Confessions
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others...
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Side by Side
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over t...
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A Conversation with Lars von Trier
Filmmaker Eva Ziemsen was determined to interview renowned film director, Lars von Trier. Her provoc...
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Trier's Element
Behind-the-scenes documentary about Lars von Trier's latest movie Europa (1991). Also features uniqu...
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Im Laboratorium des Doktor von Trier: Zurück zur Magie des Kinos
German/French TV documentary portraying Danish film director Lars von Trier....
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Filmbyen: The New Mecca of Cinema
Filmbyen is a cinema-town created by Lars Von Trier (director) et Peter Aalbek Jensen (producer). Th...
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I Am Curious, Film
The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries...
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Lars From 1 - 10
Breaking The Waves director Lars Von Trier invents his own set of rules for filmmaking....
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Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
Behind the scenes documentary of Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime (1984)....
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Arteholic
Palm Springs resident and film and art legend Udo Kier is "arteholic". He lives, breathes and makes ...
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Menthe: The Benefactor
Based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury, "Story of O", tells the story of a voluntary f...
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Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast ...
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The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the ...
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Goodbye, I'm Kurt
A story of 6-year-old Alberte who decides to leave her parents, because they are always busy workin...
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Good Night, Dear
Lars von Trier himself has one of the lead roles in this short film about a bank employee being subj...
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Kaptajn Klyde og hans venner vender tilbage
Close The comedy quartet Klyderne attempts to create "a typical Danish film" through a long series o...
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The Kingdom
At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworld...
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The Element of Crime
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the l...
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The Orchid Gardener
A young Jewish artist has shunned his heritage. Upon the realization that he is alone, doubting huma...
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Trespassing Bergman
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two fil...
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To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou...
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Living the Light: Robby Müller
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijm...
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The Purified
The filmmakers who created the Dogme Manifesto reflect, argue, and watch clips of their own films....
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FreeDogme
Marie Berthelius and Roger Narbonne conference call Lars von Trier, Win Wenders, Lone Scherfig, and ...
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The Kingdom II
The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a ...
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The Exhibited
Jesper Jargil's documentary portrait of a bizarre piece of Danish experimental theater directed by L...
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Looking Back At The Idiots
In 2005 the cast and crew with Lars Von Trier gatherd to talk about Lars Von Trier's Dogma film The ...
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The Humiliated
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots"....
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Ernst-Hugo
A gripping portrait of the dramatic, extravagant and ego-centric actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-199...
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Wag the Dogma
Quixotic Martino Sclavi dives deep into the Danish film scene to uncover the truth behind the Dogme ...
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The Idiots Who Started The Party
Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, whi...
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The Idiots
A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out...
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100 Cameras: Capturing Lars von Trier's Vision
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dancer in the Dark" by Lars von Trier....
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The Missing Films
Making film wears down director Lars von Trier, but he is not able to live without them. In the docu...
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The Copyist
It is the young Christian Tafdrup's (Tafdrup himself) greatest wish to become a real film director. ...
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Inside Björk
Following the career of Björk, this documentary looks at her early musical career with local iceland...
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Dogma 95, a Serious Game?
Shot in Denmark in 1999, the documentary features exclusive interviews with the creators of the film...
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The Road to Manderlay
Documentary about the filming and behind-the-scenes of Manderlay....
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Clandestine Summer
Summer vacation. But Lars remain in town for his parents must work. One day as he bikes around, he h...
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Being Bo Widerberg
The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and ...
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Plankton Salesmen
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. ...
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Occupations
A French film critic and business man can not keep his mouth shut during a screening at the Cannes F...
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