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6.0/10   1,628 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Lars von Trier (screenplay) &
Niels Vørsel (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
11 September 1987 (Denmark) more
Genre:
Plot:
A film director and a script writer (performed by Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel themselves) write a screenplay... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Sexual Perversity in Denmark: An Interview with Lars von Trier
 (From IFC. 21 October 2009, 4:41 AM, PDT)

Lars Von Trier Shocks Cannes
 (From DearCinema.com. 18 May 2009, 6:13 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Weird film. To watch only if in the right mood. more (19 total)

Cast

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Additional Details

Runtime:
UK:106 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The script von Trier and Vørsel have just finished writing at the beginning of the film is titled "The Policeman and the Whore" - an apparent reference to their previous collaboration, Forbrydelsens element (1984), whose lead characters are a detective and a prostitute. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Making of 'Europa' (1991) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Tannhäuser (The Overture) more

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3 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Weird film. To watch only if in the right mood., 11 June 2005
5/10
Author: siderite from Romania

I obviously was in the right mood, since I don't give it a horrible mark. I do give it a 6 out of 10, because it is obviously such a low budget movie and it's definitely very original, but other than that, I am still amazed I watched it till the end.

Two screenwriters are trying to do in 5 days what they barely succeeded in one and a half years, that is write a script. They lost their original screenplay, which by now they can barely remember how it started, due to a bad disk. Each day is accompanied with scenes of their creative process, scenes from the movie they would do and dialogues with different people.

Now it happens that I've just written an IMDb comment that said "Funny little things: Udo Kier plays a short role in this movie, and he is really young". Deja vu! Udo Kier plays in this one, as well.

The movie is shot in black and white, probably by the same single camera, and the sound is almost not processed giving the whole movie a documentary like feeling. There are a lot of things written between the lines, the satire of the government and film industry being the most obvious.

Conclusion: you should watch this mostly if you're Danish. Else if you are a movie critic or deep into films. It is NOT a horror movie. A movie that has some gore at the very end is not horror. And also you have to have the right set of mind to watch it.

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