The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
2007 · 1h 31m
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Jacob Thuesen
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jacob Thuesen Director
- Jonatan Spang as Erik Nietzsche
- Lars von Trier as Narrator
- David Dencik as Zelko
- Mille Lehfeldt as Margrethe (as Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt)
- Søren Pilmark as Mads
- Søren Malling as Hans Jørgen
- Dejan Čukić as Selkoff
- Troels Lyby as Bent
- Carl Martin Norén as Göran
- Therese Damsgaard as Karin
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