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De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1 (2007)

100 min · Biography, Tragicomedy

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Directors

Jacob Thuesen

Cast

Jonatan Spang, David Dencik, Carl Martin Norén, Therese Damsgaard, Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt, Line Bie Rosenstjerne, Dejan Čukić, Lars von Trier, Søren Malling, Søren Pilmark, Malin Brolin-Tani, Troels Lyby, Jens Albinus, Hans Henrik Clemensen, Thomas Bendixen

A naïve young Dane mistakenly admitted to film school must navigate its fierce competition and the professional, sexual, and political setbacks that follow.

The story

Erik Nietzsche is a young Dane with dreams of making films. He is admitted to the Danish film school by mistake and finds himself amid fierce competition among the students. The classes strike him as abstract, with no technical skills taught in the first year, while the teachers are portrayed as inept, frustrated, and pedantic. As Erik confronts professional, sexual, and political setbacks, he must learn how to find his way through a world that offers little protection to the naïve.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Erik Nietzsche is a young Dane who dreams of making films. Admitted to the Danish film school by mistake, he is struck by the fierce competition among the students, the abstract nature of the classes (technical skills are not taught in the first year), and the ineptitude of frustrated, pedantic teachers. As he encounters professional, as well as sexual and political, setbacks, he learns how to make his way in a world that spares no one who is naïve.

Genres

Biography, Tragicomedy

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