Movie: The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1

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Jonatan Spang
Jonatan Spang

Erik Nietzsche

Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier

Narrator

Mille Lehfeldt
Mille Lehfeldt

Margrethe (as Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt)

David Dencik
David Dencik

Zelko

Carl Martin Norén
Carl Martin Norén

Göran

Therese Damsgaard
Therese Damsgaard

Karin

Søren Pilmark
Søren Pilmark

Mads

Bodil Jørgensen
Bodil Jørgensen

Katrine Bonfils

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Sammy

Paprika Steen
Paprika Steen

Ursula Østdal

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    Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.

  • Release Date

    2007-12-25

  • Average

    4.5

  • Rating:

    2.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    Dansk

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