Jørgen Leth

Jørgen Leth

Born: June 14, 1937
in Århus, Denmark
Jørgen Leth is a Danish poet and film director who is considered a leading figure in experimental documentary film making. Most notable are his epic documentary A Sunday in Hell and his surrealistic short film The Perfect Human. He is also a sports commentator for Danish television and is represented by the film production company, Sunset Productions.

Movies for Jørgen Leth...

Title: Leth og Pilgaard indtager Danmark
Character: Self - Host
Released: August 18, 2021
Type: TV
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Corona Film Club
Title: Corona Film Club
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop.
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I Walk
Title: I Walk
Character: himself
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Documentary about Danish filmmaker, sports journalist and poet Jørgen Leth who struggles after surviving a major earthquake in Haiti.
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Gifts of Chance – a film about Jørgen Leth
Title: Gifts of Chance – a film about Jørgen Leth
Character: Himself
Released: March 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Jørgen Leth looks back at more than 50 years as a filmmaker in a cheerful film, whose contagious enthusiasm initiates us in his special poetry.
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Title: Hos Hans
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2018
Type: TV
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Jørgen Leth & Co.: Vi Sidder Bare Her
Title: Jørgen Leth & Co.: Vi Sidder Bare Her
Character: Self
Released: July 26, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Mit Spanien
Released: August 8, 2016
Type: TV
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Født til Filmen
Title: Født til Filmen
Character: Himself
Released: October 5, 2015
Type: Movie
What are the consequences of a young person to be famous at an early age, being a public person? "Født til Filmen" is about the Danish actress Stine Bierlich's (1967 - 2007) life and career. Through interviews with herself, with her family - Ann Bierlich (mother), Asger Leth (brother), Jørgen Leth (stepfather), friends and people from the film industry it tells us about Stine's life from being a child actress to becoming a celebrated young star of the 80's. The film is a comment on today's worshipping of stars, and how fame has almost become a drug in itself. It’s as if here’s every answer to any doubt. But as Stine's story shows, reality can actually be the opposite.
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Laamb
Title: Laamb
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 7, 2013
Type: Movie
The rules are simple in Senegalese wrestling: First man down, loses. The sport derives from ritual manhood trials and has developed into a national sport with packed stadiums and huge prizes. Today, the fight is supplemented with bare knuckle boxing but without any protection. The 22­-year-­old cattle herder Ndoff has been chosen to compete in an annual talent event in Dakar, and faces a possible breakthrough as a pro wrestler. LAAMB is the story of a sport filled with myths and extreme voodoo rituals, and a modern tale about fighting one’s way out of poverty.
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Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
Title: Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
Character: Self
Released: July 2, 2011
Type: Movie
Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. This documentary follows the life story of the composer by the means of his melodic sounds. It is a reflection on his soundtracks, which changed the common film scores forever. It is a contemporary document about the attitude to life in a time of social, political and cultural change after war, about work and exodus of Polish artists in the 50s and 60s. A story about how film music is created and how it affects people. Directors who worked with Komeda and who are also friends talk about him: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Henning Carlsen and Andrzej Wajda. His wife, Zofia Komeda, and his sister, Irena Orlowska, recollect him.
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Klown
Title: Klown
Released: December 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip. Frank's mate Casper is also coming along. Weighed down a with their obligation, Frank and Casper nevertheless look forward to ending the trip at Skanderborg Festival where there's plenty there for the guys, a spree of drinking and women. Not the best example to set for young Bo. And how do their partners see it all?
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The Erotic Man
Title: The Erotic Man
Character: Himself
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: Movie
The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, about the special moments one remembers, and about the director's own circling around the essence of eroticism.
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Title: Spise med Price
Character: Fortæller
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: TV
The artistically streaked brothers James and Adam Price learned early on to LOVE food and both are right at home in the kitchen. In this series they alternate between working together and competing against each other as they take on each episode's theme of food. Some dishes are done the old fashioned way, some get a twist but all is done in a humorous atmosphere of good-natured bantering, teasing and story telling.
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ABCinema
Title: ABCinema
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A documentary and series of interviews about the ABCinema movement/production group.
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Sanselighedens pris
Title: Sanselighedens pris
Released: February 1, 2007
Type: Movie
When the media storm flared up in the wake of Jørgen Leth's memoir "The Imperfect Man" in 2005, it was mainly due to the passage about Leth's erotic relationship with the chef's young daughter. While the storm was still raging, friend and journalist Jørgen Flindt Pedersen contacted Jørgen Leth, who had been hiding from the public, to hear his reaction. "The price of sensuality" follows Leth for a year after its publication, in quiet moments outside the limelight, until the farewell the following late summer, when Leth goes home to Haiti.
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Freedom of Space: Skateboard Culture and the Public Space
Title: Freedom of Space: Skateboard Culture and the Public Space
Character: Narrator
Released: May 26, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary about the interaction of skateboarding and public space. Shot in 2006 on 16mm Film and Mini-DV as part of the Fuel TV experiment.
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Aarhus
Title: Aarhus
Character: Self
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary short about the director's home town of Aarhus, Denmark.
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The Five Obstructions
Title: The Five Obstructions
Character: Voice-over (from Det perfekte menneske) / Self - Director / +
Released: November 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.
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66 Scenes from America
Title: 66 Scenes from America
Character: Self
Released: March 27, 1982
Type: Movie
As a visual narrative it 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.
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Good and Evil
Title: Good and Evil
Character: Narrator
Released: May 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of tableaux of Life in Denmark, he carries absurdism to a happy extreme. To act out his minuscule non-dramas, he uses a motley crew of professional actors like Ghita Nørby and Claus Nissen, writer Dan Turéll plus a snake charmer, a bicycle racer and a circus queen.
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The Perfect Human
Title: The Perfect Human
Character: Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1968
Type: Movie
An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.