Lars von Trier

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AKA: Lars Trier
Nationality: Danish
Birthdate: 04/30/1956
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark

biography

Lars von Trier has been one of the splashiest talents that Danish--indeed European--cinema has produced in years. His reputation as one of a few genuine 'enfants terribles' of cinema in the 1980s and 90s does not stem simply from his call for Ingmar Bergman's death (so that other Scandinavian filmmakers could receive more attention) or his calling Roman Polanski a bad name when his film "Europa" (1991; "Zentropa" in the USA) failed to receive the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Rather, the attention von Trier has justly received stems from his playful experimentation and the darkly haunting atmosphere Continued

Credits

Numb3rs
(TV Show)
2007-2007
Tabu
Narrator
2007
The Boss of It All
Screenplay
2007
The Boss of It All
Director
2007
Manderlay
Director
2006
Manderlay
Screenplay
2006
Dear Wendy
Screenplay
2005
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
(TV Show)
2004-2004
Butterfingers
Source Material
2004
Butterfingers
Executive Producer
2004
Heartless
Source Material
2004
Heartless
Executive Producer
2004
Black Noise
Source Material
2004
Black Noise
Executive Producer
2004
The Young and the Headless
Source Material
2004
The Young and the Headless
Executive Producer
2004
Hook's Kingdom
Source Material
2004
Hook's Kingdom
Executive Producer
2004
The West Side of Midnight
Source Material
2004
The West Side of Midnight
Executive Producer
2004
Goodbye Kiss
Source Material
2004
Goodbye Kiss
Executive Producer
2004
Death's Kingdom
Source Material
2004
Death's Kingdom
Executive Producer
2004
Thy Kingdom Come
Source Material
2004
Thy Kingdom Come
Executive Producer
2004
+(13 More)
Dogville
Screenplay
2004
Dogville
Director
2004
The Five Obstructions
Director
2003
Dancer in the Dark
Director
2000
Dancer in the Dark
screenplay
2000
The Idiots
Screenplay
2000
The Idiots
Director
2000
The Idiots
screenplay
2000
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
Himself
1998
Breaking the Waves
Director
1997
Breaking the Waves
screenplay
1997
Medea
Director
1987
Medea
screenplay
1987
Chacun son cinema
Director
A World of Difference
Actor
Zentropa
The Jew
The Humiliated
Actor
Mammoth
Producer
The Kingdom
Screenplay
The Kingdom
screenplay
Liberation Pictures
From Story
Liberation Pictures
screenplay
Epidemic
Director
The Element of Crime
Director
Zentropa
Director
The Kingdom
Director
Liberation Pictures
Director
The Kingdom II
Director
Antichrist
Director
Epidemic
The Film Director
The Purified
Himself
The Element of Crime
shooting screenplay
The Early Years--Erik Nietzsche Part 1
Screenplay
The Element of Crime
screenplay
Epidemic
screenplay
The Element of Crime
From Story
Antichrist
Screenplay
Zentropa
screenplay
The Kingdom II
screenplay

milestones

Year
Milestone
1977 
Made a student film, "Orkide gartneren/The Orchid Gardener", which helped him gain admission to the Danish Film School
1983 
Made the medium-length (60 mins.) film, "Liberation Pictures/Image of a Relief", which he wrote and directed, as a graduate school project; won second prize at an annual European Film School Competition and was promptly picked up by Britain's Channel 4
1984 
Feature film debut, "The Element of Crime", which he wrote and directed; was the first film in his "Europe" trilogy; also played the role of "Schmuck of Ages"
1989 
Appeared as an actor only in the Danish children's film, "A World of Difference"
1991 
Began making the film "Dimension" in three-minute segments to be finished each year; the film is scheduled to be completed in the year 2024
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