Lars von Trier

Lars Trier was born in 1956 in Kongens Lyngby, north of Copenhagen; on her deathbed his mother tells him that his biological father is another man. After three years of film studies at the university, he graduated in 1983 from the National Film School, having added the particle “von” to his name as a provocation. In 1992 he founded the company Zentropa with Peter Aalbæk Jensen, and in 1995 he published the Dogme 95 manifesto with Thomas Vinterberg. Subject to an intense fear of flying, he received the Palme d'Or in 2000.

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• CinemaBreaking the WavesLars von Trier · 1996Cinema