Erik Bruhn remains legendary among the greatest dancers of our time. Through dance, he sought to attain and express the ‘unattainable’, a transcendence to the spiritual. The film is an unusual, personal portrait showing many personal clips and interviews with the artist never before released. The documentary has two angels: Erik Bruhn as an outstanding artist performing ballets...
The laws governing old age pensions in Denmark have recently been consolidated, and the rates of pensions improved. The film opens with visits to typical old age pensioners living independently. We pay a visit to a typical block of low-rent flats, built specially for old people who can care for themselves. Special places are provided for those who can no longer live alone witho...
Presents a day in the life of a few inhabitants of Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands: A father and his daughter are having breakfast when the fire-brigade drive by. A woman and her child are looking at the fire and meet a married couple. The couple say hello to a man who is going out with his boat... and so on.
En film om verdenspressen i Jerusalem, optaget i Beit Agron, som er regeringens pressehus. De medvirkende korrespondenter ***er den israelsk-palstinensiske konflikt p tt hold og er afhngig af informationer fra pressehuset, hvor chefen er journalist af uddannelse, men ogs regeringens mand. Hvordan f verdenspressen til at tegne et positivt billede af Israel, nr pressefrih...
"The sunday is April 11th, 1976, when the classic and gruelling annual Paris-Roubaix bicycle race was held, and the Hell is the cobblestone field roads of northern France, where the champions of bicycle racing battle for victory. With an army of photographers, Jorgen Leth followed the race in all of its detail, and he has edited this 24 hours of footage into a mythic and docume...
Why are some of the world's biggest international companies translating an absurd foreign
book into their own language, trying to hide their aims and avoid discussion about the human
rights and freedom of speech situation in Turkmenistan
Shadow Of The Holy Book investigates the morality of international companies and the dictatorship
of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan. These com...
An extension of The Perfect Human, Good and Evil is a longer, more expansive pseudo-documentary portrayal of life, no less. Using capacious titles or chapter headings that Leth's narrator's voice dwells upon and impresses upon us as he toys with the cliché "Faces", "Bodies", "Things", "Necessary actions", "Unnecessary actions", Good thoughts", "Bad thoughts", "Pleasant feelings...
There is an expert panel of scientist, discussing and explaining the different parts of the film. The famous Danish sexologist couple Inge and Sten Hegeler are throughout the leading characters, while the others experts change in every sector. The headings are as follows: male and female homosexuality, aesthetics and sex, handicapped and sex, drugs and sex, pornography and sex,...
A critical investigative documentary about the South African wine industry.
In just ten years, imports of South African wine to Denmark increased by more than 78%. This daring documentary exposes how consumers are duped by different labelling systems that conceal practices of modern-day slavery and severe crimes against the environment: Pesticides are used without protection. U...
Ruben vit au Danemark, Nastya en Russie, Chikara au Japon et tous pratiquent le sport de haut niveau. Pour l’un, gérer le stress et la défaite s’avère compliqué. Pour l’autre, l’entranement sans relache est rude et pour le dernier, ne pas décevoir les espoirs de son père est primordial. Trois portraits sensibles de jeunes champions.