Lars von Trier is a Danish screenwriter and film director. I have repeatedly received prizes at international film festivals. Owns the main award of the Cannes Film Festival.
Personal life of Lars von Trier
The future filmmaker was born in the capital of Denmark in the spring of 1956. He spent his childhood and youth there. In the future, it was here that began a career in the film industry. His parents did not belong to the world of art: father and mother worked in the civil service.
The boy was brought up in the spirit of complete freedom, which resulted in the exclusion from school: the child could not study in the strict disciplinary framework of the institution. However, this moment gave him greater independence.
At the age of 11 years, Lars independently shot a mini-cartoon lasting several minutes. Mother supported her son. It should be noted that his uncle, his mother’s brother, was a famous Danish documentary filmmaker. They gave Lars a personal camera, and he honed his editing skills on old films that his mother brought from work.
At age 12, the boy took part in the film "The Secret Summer", but the acting experience did not make the proper impression. Lars was more interested in the technical process on the other side of the camera.
At 17, Trier attempted to enter the Copenhagen Film School, but failed. However, this did not break him and he became a member of the film-film association "Filmgrupp-16". With the help of Uncle Lars, he became editor at the Danish Film Fund. Here he will remove two short-length tapes. In the future, it is these works that will contribute to entering the film school.
In his youth, Lars Trier was actively looking for his place in life. For a long time, the young man was completely sure that by blood he was a Jew, since his father was half Jewish. Sometimes he attended the synagogue. Only shortly before his death did he learn from his mother’s revelations that his father was Fritz Hartmann, a German by birth.
Trier's first wife became the director of children's films Cecilia Holbeck. Soon the family was replenished with two daughters, and after 8 years broke up. By the way, the personal life of the filmmaker was adjusted in the process of parting with his first wife. His second life partner is the teacher of the youngest daughter. Bente Fröge received a marriage proposal when the baby was only 3 weeks old. Already in 1997, twin boys were born in the family.
Films Lars von Trier
Those films that Trier released while working in the cinema fund, the director began to append a prefix in the aristocratic style to his name - "background". He justifies his decision by the fact that some Hollywood filmmakers use noble titles.
The beginning of a serious career of Lars von Trier can be considered a short film, which was filmed as a thesis. "Liberation Pictures" won the main prize of the Munich Film Festival in 1984.
The director quickly burst into the world of big cinema with "The Element of Crime". The film was awarded three prizes at once. The Dane gained wider fame after the paintings "Epidemic" and "Europe". Together with the Element of Crime, they formed a trilogy.
The general public von Trier became known after the series "Kingdom". A movie version of the series was later released.
The list of films by Lars von Trier is small, but each tape has a depth and an addictive plot.
