Lars von Trier
Film director
1956 –
Who is Lars von Trier?
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective – an avant-garde filmmaking movement – although his own films have taken a variety of approaches. His work has frequently divided critical opinion.
Von Trier began making films at age eleven. Von Trier suffers periodically from depression, as well as various fears and phobias, including an intense fear of flying. As he quipped in an interview, "basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking." His first publicly released film was the 1977 experimental short The Orchid Gardener and his first feature came seven years later with The Element of Crime. Among many prizes, awards and nominations, he is the recipient of the Palme d'Or, the Grand Prix, and the Prix du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
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- Born
- Apr 30, 1956
Kongens Lyngby - Also known as
- Lars Trier
- Erik Nietzsche
- Lars Von Trier
- von Trier
- Parents
- Spouses
- Cæcilia Holbek Trier
(1987 - 1995) - Bente Frøge
(1997 - )
- Cæcilia Holbek Trier
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Danes
- Nationality
- Denmark
- Profession
- Education
- National Film School of Denmark
(1979 - 1983)
- National Film School of Denmark
- Employment
- Zentropa
- Lived in
- Copenhagen
- Kongens Lyngby
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on July 23, 2013
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