Lars von Trier
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".
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5011 |
| Birthday | 1956-04-30 |
| Place of Birth | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Also Known As | Lars Trier, |
2006
The Boss of It All
6.579/311
The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a nonexist...
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The Boss of It All
1991
Europa
7.352/354
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use hi...
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Europa
2003
The Five Obstructions
6.9/169
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrat...
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The Five Obstructions
2010
… But Film Is My Mistress
6.308/13
Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woo...
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… But Film Is My Mistress
1987
Epidemic
5.667/132
A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.
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Epidemic
2020
Lars von Trier: The Burden From Donald Duck
7/1
Lars von Trier was interviewed by Christian Lund at his home outside Copenhagen in November 2020.
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Lars von Trier: The Burden From Donald Duck
2007
The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
4.5/12
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s,...
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
1997
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
6.8/4
A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his fil...
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Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
2000
Von Trier's 100 Eyes
7.2/8
Although at first sight this might look like a simple ‘making of DANCER IN THE DARK’, the later developments in the film reveal the whole drama of Lar...
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Von Trier's 100 Eyes
2013
Colors
0/0
The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without the blood running through them. I came to Barão Ger...
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Colors
2004
Dogville Confessions
6.8/26
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, B...
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Dogville Confessions
2012
Side by Side
7.2/308
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmak...
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Side by Side
2005
A Conversation with Lars von Trier
0/0
Filmmaker Eva Ziemsen was determined to interview renowned film director, Lars von Trier. Her provocative offer, to conduct the interview nude, led to...
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A Conversation with Lars von Trier
1991
Trier's Element
0/0
Behind-the-scenes documentary about Lars von Trier's latest movie Europa (1991). Also features unique footage of Trier and cast shooting a bit of foot...
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Trier's Element
1991
Portrait of Lars von Trier
0/0
Danish documentary from TV2 in 1991.
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Portrait of Lars von Trier
1998
Im Laboratorium des Doktor von Trier: Zurück zur Magie des Kinos
0/0
German/French TV documentary portraying Danish film director Lars von Trier.
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Im Laboratorium des Doktor von Trier: Zurück zur Magie des Kinos
2007
Filmbyen: The New Mecca of Cinema
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Filmbyen is a cinema-town created by Lars Von Trier (director) et Peter Aalbek Jensen (producer). They founded together a company which regroups all t...
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Filmbyen: The New Mecca of Cinema
1995
I Am Curious, Film
3.8/6
The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
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I Am Curious, Film
1998
Lars From 1 - 10
5.5/2
Breaking The Waves director Lars Von Trier invents his own set of rules for filmmaking.
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Lars From 1 - 10
1984
Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
0/0
Behind the scenes documentary of Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime (1984).
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Ennenstadt Europa – The Making of The Element of Crime
2014
Arteholic
5/1
Palm Springs resident and film and art legend Udo Kier is "arteholic". He lives, breathes and makes art and at times he is even a living art piece. In...
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Arteholic
1979
Menthe: The Benefactor
4.958/12
Based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury, "Story of O", tells the story of a voluntary female submission.
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Menthe: The Benefactor
2022
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
0/0
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script t...
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Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
1998
Ironie und Gottessuche - Das Kino des Lars von Trier
0/0
Documentary on Lars von Trier
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Ironie und Gottessuche - Das Kino des Lars von Trier
2015
En invitation fra Lars von Trier
0/0
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En invitation fra Lars von Trier
2000
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
3.5/2
The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a ge...
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The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
1969
Goodbye, I'm Kurt
6/1
A story of 6-year-old Alberte who decides to leave her parents, because they are always busy working or watching TV, and don’t have time to do fun th...
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Goodbye, I'm Kurt
1968
Good Night, Dear
4.9/13
Lars von Trier himself has one of the lead roles in this short film about a bank employee being subjected to a brutal robbery.
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Good Night, Dear
1980
Kaptajn Klyde og hans venner vender tilbage
8/2
Close The comedy quartet Klyderne attempts to create "a typical Danish film" through a long series of absurd sketches, parodies, musical interludes, a...
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Kaptajn Klyde og hans venner vender tilbage
1994
The Kingdom
7.8/253
At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of i...
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The Kingdom
1991
The Making of Europa
6/2
Documentary about the making of Lars von Trier's 1991 film.
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The Making of Europa
1984
The Element of Crime
6.353/221
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to fin...
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The Element of Crime
1977
The Orchid Gardener
5.063/16
A young Jewish artist has shunned his heritage. Upon the realization that he is alone, doubting humanity's willingness to extend help to one another,...
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The Orchid Gardener
2013
Trespassing Bergman
6.571/28
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm...
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Trespassing Bergman
2018
Bergman: A Year in a Life
7.4/39
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and...
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
6.48/153
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...
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To Each His Own Cinema
2018
Living the Light: Robby Müller
6.7/6
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diarie...
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Living the Light: Robby Müller
2003
The Purified
6.8/4
The filmmakers who created the Dogme Manifesto reflect, argue, and watch clips of their own films.
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The Purified
2000
FreeDogme
4/1
Marie Berthelius and Roger Narbonne conference call Lars von Trier, Win Wenders, Lone Scherfig, and Jean-Marc Barr and are also linked by digital vide...
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FreeDogme
1998
The Kingdom II
7.746/48
The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dar...
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The Kingdom II
2000
The Exhibited
0/0
Jesper Jargil's documentary portrait of a bizarre piece of Danish experimental theater directed by Lars von Trier.
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The Exhibited
2005
Looking Back At The Idiots
0/0
In 2005 the cast and crew with Lars Von Trier gatherd to talk about Lars Von Trier's Dogma film The Idiots.
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Looking Back At The Idiots
1998
The Humiliated
6.5/6
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".
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The Humiliated
2008
Ernst-Hugo
8/1
A gripping portrait of the dramatic, extravagant and ego-centric actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998) who would always be at the center of everything...
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Ernst-Hugo
2001
Wag the Dogma
0/0
Quixotic Martino Sclavi dives deep into the Danish film scene to uncover the truth behind the Dogme 95 Manifesto, along the way the film systematicall...
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Wag the Dogma
2020
The Idiots Who Started The Party
6/1
Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The I...
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The Idiots Who Started The Party
1998
The Idiots
6.457/639
A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.
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The Idiots
2000
100 Cameras: Capturing Lars von Trier's Vision
0/0
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dancer in the Dark" by Lars von Trier.
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100 Cameras: Capturing Lars von Trier's Vision
The Missing Films
0/0
Making film wears down director Lars von Trier, but he is not able to live without them. In the documentary film this Danish auteur’s all-consuming lo...
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The Missing Films
1999
The Copyist
0/0
It is the young Christian Tafdrup's (Tafdrup himself) greatest wish to become a real film director. He joins the reputable company Zentropa, where he...
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The Copyist
2003
Inside Björk
8.6/5
Following the career of Björk, this documentary looks at her early musical career with local icelandic bands, her acclaimed stint in The Sugarcubes, a...
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Inside Björk
1999
Dogma 95, a Serious Game?
0/0
Shot in Denmark in 1999, the documentary features exclusive interviews with the creators of the filmmaking movement Dogma 95: Lars von Trier, Thomas V...
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Dogma 95, a Serious Game?
2005
Tilbageblik på Idioterne
0/0
Documentary on "The Idiots."
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Tilbageblik på Idioterne
2003
Trier, Kidman og Cannes
0/0
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Trier, Kidman og Cannes
2005
The Road to Manderlay
0/0
Documentary about the filming and behind-the-scenes of Manderlay.
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The Road to Manderlay
1969
Clandestine Summer
0/0
Summer vacation. But Lars remain in town for his parents must work. One day as he bikes around, he hears a scream from a garden.
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Clandestine Summer
2025
Being Bo Widerberg
7/1
The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Sto...
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Being Bo Widerberg
2017
Plankton Salesmen
0/0
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. The story of the company Cinema Without Borders an...
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