‘Turen til Squashland’ is a stop-motion cartoon made by 12-year-old Lars Trier. It tells the story of a courageous and sensitive sausage living at the bottom of the sea.Read More »
Lars von Trier
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Lars von Trier – Turen til Squashland AKA The Trip to Squash Land (1967)
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Lars von Trier – Antichrist (2009)
2001-2010DenmarkDramaLars Von TrierQuote:
A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother’s grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, “Eden”, where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.Read More » -
Lars von Trier – Epidemic (1987)
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A jet-black comedy of contagion, a subversive medical-horror freak-out, and a sly metacinematic prank, Lars von Trier’s sophomore feature—born from a bet that he couldn’t make a film for less than $150,000—finds the director channeling his singular thematic obsessions into an evocatively lo-fi, perversely self-reflexive provocation. The filmmaker himself stars as a harried screenwriter whose efforts to complete a script about the outbreak of a deadly disease coincide with a grisly real-life plague. A twisted reflection on Europe’s haunted past—from the Black Death to World War II—and its scarred present, Epidemic is von Trier at his most idiosyncratic and audaciously experimental.Read More » -
Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred – Riget II AKA The Kingdom II (1994) (HD)
1991-2000ArthouseComedyDenmarkLars Von TrierMorten ArnfredQuote:
This second series ended with even more questions unanswered than the first, and a third series was planned. However, due to the death in 1998 of Ernst-Hugo Järegård (who played Stig Helmer) and the subsequent deaths of Kirsten Rolffes (Mrs Drusse) and Morten Rotne Leffers who played the male dishwasher, the likelihood of a third series is now very remote. Von Trier actually wrote the third and final season, but the production was not picked up by DR. At that point, five regular cast members had died and it seemed impossible to continue the series. The abandoned scripts were sent to the producers of Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital, but it is unclear whether they used the scripts or not.Read More » -
Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred – Riget I AKA The Kingdom (1994)(HD)
1991-2000DenmarkDramaLars Von TrierMorten ArnfredTVSynopsis wrote:
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff’s faith in science–a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor’s fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural. At the goading of a spiritualist patient, some employees work to let supernatural forces rest.Read More » -
Lars von Trier – Idioterne AKA The Idiots [+ Commentaries] (1998)
1991-2000DenmarkDogma FilmsDramaLars Von TrierThe group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the “inner idiot” in themselves.Read More »
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Morten Arnfred & Lars von Trier – Riget II AKA The Kingdom II [+Extras] (1997)
Morten Arnfred1991-2000DenmarkDramaTVDanish television mini-series, created by Lars von Trier in 1994, and co-directed by Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred.
The series is set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet, the city and country’s main hospital, nicknamed “Riget”. “Riget” means “the realm” or “the kingdom” and leads one to think of “dødsriget”, the realm of the dead. The show follows a number of characters, both staff and patients, as they encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural. The show is notable for its wry humor, its muted sepia colour scheme, and the appearance of a chorus of dishwashers with Down Syndrome who discuss in intimate detail the strange occurrences in the hospital.Read More »
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Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred – Riget I AKA The Kingdom (1994)
Lars Von Trier1991-2000DenmarkDramaMorten ArnfredTVThe Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff’s faith in science–a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor’s fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural. At the goading of a spiritualist patient, some employees work to let supernatural forces rest.Read More »
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Lars von Trier – Forbrydelsens element AKA The Element of Crime (1984)
1981-1990CrimeDenmarkDramaLars Von TrierFisher, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and role model, author of a treatise called “The Element of Crime”, asks him to solve a series of murders involving lottery ticket sellers. Guided by the theories put forth in the book, Fischer retraces the steps of a suspect, Harry Grey, as recorded in a three-year-old police surveillance report.Read More »