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Lars von Trier
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I really wanted to be a Jew, and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because, you know, my family was German, which also gave me some pleasure. What can I say?
— Cannes Film Festival, 2011.
Lars von Trier
Danish film director and screenwriter (born 1956)
- Fame66.0
- Momentum10.0
- Directors rank#168
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- Fame66.0
- Momentum10.0
- Directors rank#168
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Born 1956 · age 70
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A Danish director whose films probe existential dread, psychosexual rupture, and the mechanics of cruelty with a rigor that has made him both essential and unwelcome—declared persona non grata at Cannes after a poorly chosen joke, accused of on-set harm, yet still a fixture of European cinema's confrontational edge.
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Lars von Trier began as a child actor on Danish television in the late 1960s, then turned behind the camera for a career now stretching five decades. In the mid-1990s he co-created Dogme 95 with Thomas Vinterberg, a stripped-down filmmaking manifesto, and co-founded Zentropa, a production company whose films have sold more than 350 million tickets and earned eight Oscar nominations. His own work—technically ambitious, deliberately provocative—examines mercy, sacrifice, mental illness, and political fault lines through images that include graphic violence and unsimulated sex. The provocations h…
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- Bodil Honorary Award
- Sonning Prize
- European Film Award for Best Film
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