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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1 (2007)
Directed by Jacob Thuesen
Comedy, Drama · 1h 31m
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.
Cast
Jonatan Spang
David Dencik
Søren Pilmark
Søren Malling
Dejan Čukić
Troels Lyby
Carl Martin Norén
Therese Damsgaard
Mille Lehfeldt
Malin Brolin-Tani
Lars von Trier
Crew
- Director
- Jacob Thuesen
- Screenplay
- Lars von Trier
- Director of Photography
- Sebastian Blenkov
- Original Music Composer
- Vincent D'Hondt
- Editor
- Per K. Kirkegaard
- Producer
- Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Marie Gade Denessen
Details
- Original title
- De unge år
- Release date
- 2007-12-25
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- DA
- Spoken languages
- Danish
- Countries
- France, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Austria
- Production
- Zentropa Entertainments, Memfis Film, Les Films du Losange, Lucky Red, Dor Film