Jørgen Leth
Birthday: 1937-06-14
Place of Birth: Århus, Denmark
Biography: Jørgen Leth was a Danish poet and film director who is considered a leading figure in experimental documentary film making. Most notable are his epic documentary A Sunday in Hell and his surrealistic short film The Perfect Human. He is also a sports commentator for Danish television and is represented by the film production company, Sunset Productions.
Movies
The Five Obstructions
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starri...
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The Perfect Human
An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perf...
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66 Scenes from America
As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what ...
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The Erotic Man
The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director hi...
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Sanselighedens pris
When the media storm flared up in the wake of Jørgen Leth's memoir "The Imperfect Man" in 2005, it w...
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Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosema...
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Født til Filmen
What are the consequences of a young person to be famous at an early age, being a public person? "F...
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ABCinema
A documentary and series of interviews about the ABCinema movement/production group....
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Good and Evil
Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk o...
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Gifts of Chance – a film about Jørgen Leth
Jørgen Leth looks back at more than 50 years as a filmmaker in a cheerful film, whose contagious ent...
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I Walk
Documentary about Danish filmmaker, sports journalist and poet Jørgen Leth who struggles after survi...
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Freedom of Space: Skateboard Culture and the Public Space
A documentary about the interaction of skateboarding and public space. Shot in 2006 on 16mm Film and...
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Laamb
The rules are simple in Senegalese wrestling: First man down, loses. The sport derives from ritual m...
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Corona Film Club
Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he st...
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Klown
Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip. Frank's ma...
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