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Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter.
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entertainment · Danish filmmaker (born 1956) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · cinematographer · director · also Lars von Trier, Trier
Born 30 April 1956 · Q133730
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2026· 4 entries
“he let himself be egged on by a provocation”
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“a film should be like a stone in your shoe”
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“all the stories are about a realist who comes into conflict with life. I”
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2025· 4 entries
The Guardian: Udo Kier, German actor who starred in 200 films spanning Lars von Trier to Ace Ventura, dies aged 81
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Awarded Bodil Honorary Award (2025).
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The Guardian: ‘Morally questionable’: inside the epic Lars von Trier exhibition in Copenhagen
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The Guardian: Lars von Trier admitted to a care centre following Parkinson’s diagnosis
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2024· 1 entry
Trier announced he was working on a new film titled After which will benefit from funding from the Danish Film Institute
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2023· 4 entries
The Guardian: Lars von Trier defends ‘Russian lives matter also’ comment
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The Guardian: The Idiots review – Lars von Trier’s appalling-taste Dogme satire is irritatingly original
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The Guardian: Dusk review – powerful exploration of Lars von Trier’s Dogville
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The Guardian: Breaking the Waves review – Emily Watson adds brilliance to von Trier’s windup of a movie
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Kingdom: Exodus review – return of Lars von Trier’s cult hospital horror
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The Guardian: Lars von Trier diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease
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2021· 1 entry
Consisting of five episodes released in November 2022
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2019· 2 entries
“only press conference I ever had when I was sober.”
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Trier stated that he made this remark at the "only press conference I ever had when I was sober
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Sonning Prize (2018).
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2015· 1 entry
Trier began work on a new feature film, The House That Jack Built, which was originally planned as an eight-part television series
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2013· 1 entry
In order to be commercially viable, taking nearly a year to be shown complete anywhere in an uncensored director's cut
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Film for Melancholia (2011).
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Is an apocalyptic drama about two depressive sisters played by Kirsten Dunst and Gainsbourg, the former of whom marries just before a rogue planet is about to collide with Earth
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“Cannes Film Festival, 2011.”
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award (2008).
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Together with their fellow Dogme directors Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Trier and Thomas Vinterberg received the European film award for European Achievement in World Cinema
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2007· 2 entries
“s years as a student at the National Film School of Denmark. It stars Jonatan Spang as Trier”
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Which Trier wrote and Jacob Thuesen directed
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Danish Dramatics' Honorary Award (2006).
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Trier released the Danish-language comedy film, The Boss of It All, which was shot using an experimental process he named Automavision, involving the director choosing the best possible fixed camera position, then allowi
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By the English DJ and artist Shaun Baker in his remake of the song
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Konrad Wolf Prize (2004).
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Awarded Statens Kunstfonds hædersydelse (2004).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Goya Award for Best European Film for Dancer in the Dark (2001).
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2000· 6 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Film for Dancer in the Dark (2000).
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Awarded Palme d'Or for Dancer in the Dark (2000).
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Awarded European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director for Dancer in the Dark (2000).
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Trier premiered Dancer in the Dark, a musical featuring Icelandic musician Björk, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes
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With the title De Udstillede (The Exhibited)
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Two of the major characters, which led to the series' cancellation
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (1997).
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Awarded César Award for Best Foreign Film for Breaking the Waves (1997).
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1996· 5 entries
Awarded Allen Award (1996).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for Breaking the Waves (1996).
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Awarded European Film Academy Critics Award for Breaking the Waves (1996).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Film for Breaking the Waves (1996).
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Trier conducted an unusual theatrical experiment in Copenhagen involving 53 actors, which he titled Psychomobile 1: The World Clock
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1995· 1 entry
Trier and Thomas Vinterberg presented their manifesto for a new cinematic movement, which they called Dogme 95
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Kjeld Abell Prize (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen founded the film production company Zentropa Entertainment, which has sold more than 350 million tickets and was nominated for multiple Academy Awards as of 2016
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Jury Prize for Europa (1991).
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With Europa (released as Zentropa in the US), which won the Prix du Jury at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, and picked up awards at other major festivals
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1990· 1 entry
Also directed the music video for the song "Bakerman" by Laid Back
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1989· 1 entry
Trier's mother confessed to him on her deathbed that his biological father was not the man who raised him, but her former employer, Fritz Michael Hartmann (1909–2000), who was descended from a long line of Danish classic
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1984· 1 entry
The Element of Crime, Trier's breakthrough film, received twelve awards at seven international festivals including the Technical Grand Prize at Cannes, and a nomination for the Palme d'Or
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1982· 1 entry
Studied at National Film School of Denmark (1979–1982).
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1956· 1 entry
Born 1956-04-30.
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