Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier was born on Apr 30, 1956 in Denmark. Lars von Trier's big-screen debut came with Menthe - la bienheureuse directed by Lars von Trier in 1979. Lars von Trier is known for A Royal Affair directed by Nikolaj Arcel, Alicia Vikander stars as Caroline Mathilde and Mads Mikkelsen as Johann Friedrich Struensee. Lars von Trier has got 106 awards and 115 nominations so far. The most recent award Lars von Trier achieved is Black Sea Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Lars von Trier plays is The House That Jack Built which will be released on Oct 17, 2018.

Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, Element of Crime (1984). A highly distinctive blend of film noir and German Expressionism with stylistic nods to Dreyer, Andrei Tarkovsky and Orson Welles, its combination of yellow-tinted monochrome cinematography (pierced by shafts of blue light) and doom-haunted atmosphere made it an unforgettable visual experience. His subsequent features Epidemic (1987) and Europa (1991) have been equally ambitious both thematically and visually, though his international fame is most likely to be based on L'hôpital et ses fantômes (1994), a TV soap opera blending hospital drama, ghost story and Twin Peaks (1990)-style surrealism that was so successful in Denmark that it was released internationally as a 280-minute theatrical feature.