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- A 12-year-old kid who misses his father becomes really affectionate with a young delinquent he just met.
- Every few years from 1880 through 1979, boys named Carl enter a long-term health facility while poor girls named Hanne work to help their families survive.
- A neglected, young teenager abandons his troubled home and finds himself caught in a network of jealousy as he drifts from one romantic companion to another, longing for belonging, while living as a hustler and thief among a gang of such.
- Here she comes, right from the pages of the bestselling book Linnea in Monet's Garden. The charming tale of a little girl's love affair with Impressionist Claude Monet's paintings is now brought to life in full animation. Join Linnea and her friend Mr. Bloom as they set off to Paris, and then to Monet's garden in Giverny. Watch with delight as they discover the real places which served as inspiration for their favorite paintings. And marvel as the paintings and the garden come to "life" in live action. Linnea in Monet's Garden is a unique blend of imagination and education, teaching children about the art and life of one of the most important painters of the 20th century, while entertaining them with the mystery and beauty of art and nature.
- Haiti. Uden title is a kaleidoscopic, dramatic documentary from this chaotic Caribbean country and comprises a mixture of material on video, 16 mm and 35 mm, dating in some scenes right back shooting on Leth's Udenrigskorrespondent (1982). The very lively hand-held video sequences that make up the most recent material make up the bulk of the film and the rapid, fragmentary editing style garnished with neat video tricks, gunfire, etc. put the film at the same level as the Haiti chaos itself. The French photographer Chantal Regnault plays Leth's role as the "experiencer", an observer in the midst of the dramatic reality of Haiti which she also describes with an outsider's fascination. The film contains a large number of very powerful, sensual pictures of life and death in Haiti, the heartrending weeping at the funerals, mountains of refuse picturesquely and infernally aflame, the dramatic manifestations and ritual beauty of voodoo, the rhetoric of the politicians, and far more besides. Another angle is pursued in the scenes of the American soldier stationed there who clearly represents the impotence of western rationalism in the face of Haitian reality. But there are also great contrasts: in perfectly calm passages the tropical rain pours down on the Hotel Oloffson garden in lingering shots, lightly-attired women was clothes in a river, and a naked woman poet recites one of her poems draped in a basket chair as the camera slowly zooms in on her. Shots of a naked black woman on a white sheet offer highly personal erotic material that is also displayed during the film in ultra-brief, hidden pictures. Haiti. Uden title is thus a dynamic, vigorous visual narrative aesthetically akin to a number of contemporary documentaries such as Tómas Gislason's Fra hjertet til hånden (a portrait film about Leth) and Jacob Thuesen's Under New York.
- Director/Writer Krzysztof Kieslowski shares his views on life, people, politics and comments a little about some of his films in a very casual conversation.
- The images from the Tour de France in the television production Eddy Merckx in the Vincinity of a Cup of Coffee may be seen as a small sketch for the fully unfurled epic cycling drama Stars and Watercarriers. The film follows the 1973 Giro d'Italia and in his commentary Leth explains the fascination exerted by the great cycle races: "The most beautiful, most pathetic images cycling can give us involve extreme performances in classic terrain." The action literally emerges on the move and the riders readily assume the roles tradition and epic necessity allocate to them, with the central conflict between the accustomed winner and greedy Belgian legend Eddy Merckx and the Spanish mountain specialist José Manuel Fuente. Stars and Watercarriers was created by a small film unit that use a vivid, documentary style to describe the race from close up and sometimes quite from within. The film consist of ten sections, each with a title such as "A road of pain" and "A peaceful day"; thus it alternates between dramatic and more peaceful passages, which Leth's commentary leads the viewer through soberly, empathetically and humorously. The chapter "The trial of truth" stands out with its focus on the Danish star Ole Ritter, his technical, physical and psychological preparations and his performance in the time trials. Ritter is lauded with words such as "power, cycle and style in the simplest manifestation possible", and aesthetically, too, the section stands out: there is no background music or ordinary real sound. Instead, a sound close up of the chain as it seems to sing emphasises the utter concentration of Ritter's venture. Throughout the film Gunner Møller Pedersen's music supports the dramatic and aesthetic aspects of the race and thus sets the mood. The music mimics the light tread of the mountain specialists when they are in focus and seems to indicate the beat as we watch the more powerful riders.
- In-depth interview with Bjørn Andersen and his wing man 'Rense Karl' about the attractions of life in the MC gang 'Vilde Engle' along with footage from club life in the garage and on the road. Also discusses the members' critical views and use of violence against pacifists and foreigners as well as their ousting from Hjemmeværnet. Unfolds a big wish for a club house provided by the local municipality and lengthy negotiations about that. Short comments from three involved politicians and a poetic comment from Georges Marinos.
- As a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA. With the one travelling shot (through a car windscreen) and one pan (across a landscape) the tableau principle is only breached on two occasions; exceptions that prove the rule, so to speak. The images or postcards may be viewed as a number of interlaced chains of motifs, varying from ultra close up to super wide, include pictures of landscapes, highways and advertising hoardings, buildings seen from without, mostly with a fluttering Stars and Stripes somewhere in the shot, objects such as coins on a counter, refrigerator with a number of typical food products, a plate of food at a diner or a bottle of Wild Turkey, and finally, people who introduce themselves (and sometimes the content of their lives in rough-hewn form) facing the camera: for example, the New York cabbie or the celebrities Kim Larsen and Andy Warhol. The film actually consists of 75 shots but in some cases several shots combine in one scene, thus ending on sixty six. Each scene is delimited by the narrator; at the end of each shot he pins down the picture content, often by a simple indication of time or place, but in some cases more playfully, often shifting our perception in a surprising fashion. Similarly the sound close-ups in some scenes are intended to alter the viewer's immediate interpretation of the picture content, while the mood-creating or interpretive use of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes (No. 5) provides the final component of the film.
- From the farthest reaches of the galaxy comes the magical, mystical, brilliantly animated adventures of Sebastian Star Bear who lives in the Great Bear Constellation. Called to Earth from a distant planet, Sebastian becomes a furry crusader for truth, justice. He must go to Earth to save his fellow bear-mates from the evil Draco.
- A young boy finds ways to cope with his brother's sudden death in an accident.
- Linda is sitting on the train. She wants to return home to her father and mother and the well-known security of the small town. Above all, she wants to get away from the big city, especially Lasse and the great love that burnt her. The train sets off and moves towards its scheduled arrival at the provincial town's idyll at 11:30 p.m. But Lasse is also with the train. He wants Linda back at any cost. Original drama.
- Written exam is just about to begin, and everyone is waiting for the moment that gives permission to turn and read the paper with the assignment. Tables are lined up in the hall. It is completely quiet, and the atmosphere is characterized by a combination of excitement, anticipation and perhaps a little nervousness. When he turns and reads his paper, sweat springs forth and the world changes in an instant. Original short.
- For several hundred years, the amazing potato has played an important role in Europe since it was brought from the Andes to Spain, along with stolen Inca gold.
- The documentary dramatizes the recruiting and training of a young men into the Greek police during the 1967-1974 military junta rule. Seemingly decent young men are selected based on traits viewed as exploitable by the recruiters : illiterate, anti-communist, young and male. The film interviews Michailis Petrou, one of the Greek policeman involved in the tortures who agreed to testify against his peers in exchange for a reduced sentence. Petrou's testimony reveals that the training methods themselves were brutal and often torturous and was viewed as a necessity to ensure the robotic and brutal obedience of the trainees. During the dramatic reenactments of the training camps, the directors draw parallels to modern military boot camps and the methods used in the training of soldiers.
- During a holiday in Sweden, a group of Danish children drift to sea with a sailboat and land on a small uninhabited island, where they must spend a few days before being found. Describes the sociological mechanisms that come into play when a group of people are suddenly left to fend for themselves. Targeted at a youth audience.
- A short film renewal of "Kostens seks grundpiller", about diet and nutrition.
- A little girl has to bring a pair of shoes to the ballet school and thereby comes to attend a rehearsal. She herself becomes a student at the school, where she is taught dance and ordinary school subjects and sees the ballet work.
- A classical documentary about pelota, the Basque ball game. The film consists of several elegantly interlaced layers, with the manufacture of a pelota ball as the narrative framework. We are introduced to the sport today, concentrating on the current master, Retegui II, on a father teaching his young son, and on a game with the bookmakers' eager involvement on the side lines. The component of the film typical of Leth's attitude to the sport is obviously the story of the mysterious player Atano III, in the visuals an old man, on the soundtrack renowned for "his electric speed and feline suppleness". Finally, the Basque struggle simmers beneath the surface by way of a series of stills of bullet-riddled road signs and painted-over place names. The basic mood of the film is melancholy, not only due to the narrator's emphasis on former pelota feats but also thanks to the rainy weather, grey and green hues of the visuals and the musical theme by Ennio Morricone on the soundtrack.
- Animated short film, based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen story, about the little girl born from a flower.
- Jørgen Leth made Notater om kærligheden during a crisis in his life and it is a sombre, perhaps very personal film. The tone is struck by Leth's voice, which accompanies a shot of him shaving at the start of the film with the word "Repugnance". The actors are used as properties in the loosely conjoined, sketch-like scenes, and a series of simple themes reappear from Det gode og det onde, of which this film lies clearly in continuation: house fronts behind which people live, smoking a cigarette, and perhaps the most important theme of the film, touch. Other important moods or emotions include restlessness, indecisiveness, and more tangibly, writer's block, with which Leth's alter ego in the film, Claus Nissen, struggles in a brick set by Per Kirkeby. Nissen also takes up his character from Det perfekte menneske and Det gode og det onde in several scenes. In a loose structure kept together by several recurrent motifs such as a large tree lit at night, a canoe gliding along a river in the twilight, and its music, the film also contains other blocks of material, including ballet scenes shot in the studio and a number of affectionate images of a woman and her daughter in Nicaragua. The documentary material from the Trobriand Islands makes the most marked impression: a staged layer mimicking the anthropologist Malinowski's photographs from the islands in black and white and the story of the Danish film unit following in Malinowski's footsteps, again seeking tangible documentation of the nature of love.
- Illustrations of the thoughts children's have about death.
- About clothed sexuality at a big summer gathering in the Russian country side in late 1800'es. Hot, sweaty and breathless - but repressed and held back by laces, bras, hooks, ribbons, buttons. Pent-up controlled hysteria, finally coming to full eruption. Freely adapted from Chekhov's 1888 short story "The Name Day Party".
- Depiction of the social democratic activist and politician Peter Sabroe, who in the time around the turn of the century went to fight for the oppressed, oppressed and abused existences.
- Camilla and Louise are digging in the desert sand of Israel. They are looking for relics of the past, but while doing so, self-deception and life-lies appear. This mars their conception of life and shakes their relationship.
- Portrait of three Danish heavy metal bands, Illdisposed from Århus, Nidhug from Støvring, and Infernal Torment from Silkeborg.
- In the library's reading room is peace and quiet. That is until a happy, young man enters. He has been to the cinema and watched a western. An unsuspecting library visitor becomes the victim of his lively report of the film's action.
- Leth directed one of the six parts of this film anthology initiated by Werner Pedersen, the head of SFC [Statens Film Central, the National Film Board of Denmark, later amalgamated into the DFI]. Bjørn Nørgaard and Lene Adler Petersen's celebrated "action" in which the latter walked through the Copenhagen Bourse building stark naked with a crucifix in one hand is included in the film, and in general it is a highly experimental work, typical of its time, in which each artist worked freely, suing his or her own imaginations and filmic methods. Leth's contribution is a black and white, frontal shot of a hippie girl talking to the camera in English about her attire and other subjects. Leth's voice is heard off screen, emphasising the artifice of the medium.
- Per is an outsider and a charming provocateur who intrudes on former friends, a younger couple in a bourgeois environment on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen. Desperately, and in vain, Per tries to re-establish contact with his old friends through this unconventional, but at the same time frozen and past life form.
- Lars is in his own world, spinning dreamily away from the universe of reality. He observes the world both curiously and reluctantly and always from a safe distance. His wildest dream is big and pure love - and suddenly the only one is there. Lars watches her in fascination, afraid that his dream image of the beloved will crack if he gets too close. How does he establish contact? Original drama.
- Emilio Kozhikow, Milos Karoli and Franz Josef Czardas have in common that they are Gipsies and that they have survived the extermination camps of the Nazis during World War 2. Quietly and movingly they tell about the incredible sufferings and inhuman conditions. And about bestial executions. But also about will and strength. With many stills from the concentration camps and an example from a short Czech fiction film, the film moves from the personal element into the general one, becomes a requiem on the fate of a whole nation and comments on the conditions of the Gipsies today.
- Documentary short about the relief provided to the Biafra during the Civil War in Nigeria during the late 1960s.
- Three women are isolated in a bedroom. A little pig is first loved as a pet, but is later castrated. Symbolizing the wretched man. Out in the dark, a dangerous man, Dracula, is a constant threat.
- The animated history of the world part 1.
- A stil-life of marvellous Danish footballer Michael Laudrups performance on the Barcelona dreamteam 1989-94.
- An art film by Per Arnoldi about a wide range of things with redundant, non-functional ornamentation and banal beauty: Cakes, candies, lollipops, mechanical toys, slot machines, paper hats, masks, noses, fireworks, streamers, artificial flowers, pranks, flags and much more more. It is terrific that such ornate things are produced, on top of that by machine, and add appetizing and purchase-promoting properties to them. And in terms of beauty, this very banality can be accepted as fully as anything else.
- Animated Composer in need of inspiration dreams his way through centuries of music - an inspiring tale that leaves him with a rather bland pop tune.
- Troels Kløvedal's second travel series. This time he and his ship Nordkaperen sail the Indian Ocean.
- The documentary investigates what happened to power. Who took it - and what are the fundamentals for a thriving democracy?
- In 1984 Jørgen Leth, cinematographer Dan Holmberg and sound recordist Niels Torp travelled some 6,000 kilometres by train through China. The result is a very calm, beautifully perceived travelogue borne by unprejudiced curiosity and observational ability. A riverboat in a landscape of sugar-top mountains in Southern China and the many shots from the train journey are the visual leitmotifs of the film, in which we meet an acrobat, a painter in inks, some opera students from the Beijing conservatory, and a group of female racing cyclists. The camera falls in love with exquisite tai chi movements and the dexterity of the train kitchen staff, and the soundtrack gives a vivid sense of the noisy life on board, with music blaring from scratchy loudspeakers. The fact that the film should be viewed as a collection of notes on film, i.e. a kind of travel journal, is emphasised by the title and by Leth's only words on the soundtrack: "I take notes because I want to remember what I have seen. I am smoking a Chinese cigarette and I am travelling on board a train in China". (In an English version of the film, which is nineteen minutes shorter, a further three notes appear on the soundtrack).
- At danse Bournonville is a portrait of the Bournonville tradition at the Royal Danish ballet that has survived for 150 years on the basis of a few notes and the memories of the dancers and is the basis of the special nature and global reputation the company enjoys. The film was created in continuation of, and drawing on, Leth and Holmberg's experience in making Peter Martins - en danser. It primarily concentrates on the work of the charming, affected Hans Brenå in rehearsal and on stage with two young dancers in a production of Bournonville's Kermessen i Brügge. The film focuses on learning the steps and the gestures as the Bournonville tradition emphasises the combination of the two. The film also includes excerpts from Conservatoriet and Napoli. The camera work is attentive, mobile and occasionally very close to the dancers. Frontal wide shots are also used, often with pans, to show the dance as a whole, especially on stage. Leth's narrative describes the Bournonville tradition in a sober, poetic tone; for example "A new landscape, a new sky, different moods are lowered from the flies". The Royal Danish Ballet is described as "a workshop for dance where the quality of the old steps needs honing and refining every single day".
- A journey through 25 years of Danish rock history told in the music video's fast and fragmented imagery. The film alternates between concert recordings, music videos, backstage montages and interviews with musicians and critics.
- A young girl helps her mother, who runs a boarding house. The girl has a hard time choosing between two men who are both courting her, and she is influenced by an old but newly married couple who live in the boarding house and for whom every day is a party.