Images of Liberation
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The film, shot in 35mm and running almost a feature-length 57 minutes – highly unusual for a Film School production – was set in the chaotic final days of World War II, shortly after Denmark was liberated on May 4, 1945. Von Trier (1956, Denmark) added to the film previously unseen documentary footage of violent street scenes that transpired in Copenhagen in the wake of liberation. We see incidents of brutality and humiliation as citizens beat up stool pigeons and suspected collaborators. He managed to purloin this material from the archives of Denmarks Radio. (‘If it happened, it should also be shown,’ was his motto.)
Also in this combined programme
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Nocturne
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 -
Weg nach Rio
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- Denmark
- Year
- 1982
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 52'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm