Lars von Trier

"A film should be like a pebble in your shoe."

1. Born April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Graduated from The Danish Film School in 1983
3. The first internationally renowned director from Denmark since the legendary Carl Theodor Dreyer
4. Has directed three trilogies (the third still in its production stage)
• Europa Trilogy
• The Element of Crime (1984)
• Epidemic (1987)
• Europa (1991)
• Golden-Heart Trilogy
• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• The Idiots (1998)
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• USA-Land of Opportunities Trilogy
• Dogville (2003)
• Manderlay (2005)
• Washington (announced for 2007)

Lars von Trier is an inspiration for filmmakers around the world. With his innovative, unique style and determination to break free from conventional filmmaking, he has renewed Danish cinema through his involvement in the Dogme 95 movement, and it can only remain to be seen what new revolutionary ideas will come from this great Dane.

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