First Things First: Klopfenstein & Von Trier

In this combined programme

• Images of Liberation

  • Signals: First Things First

  Graduation film by Lars Trier. Even then it was unusual, controversial and not always equally understandable in its intentions. About the last days of
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  Nocturne

  • Signals: First Things First

  Von Trier’s first film academy exercise is a stylistic precursor of his The Element of Crime. It follows the hallucinating experiences of a woman with
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  Weg nach Rio

  • Signals: First Things First

  A son revises his father’s graduation film. Shot in 1968 in Zurich and in 2008 in Umbria. A gangster fleeing after a failed raid.