Lars von Trier Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Lars von Trier (born April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism.

Von Trier also directed The Kingdom (Riget) and The Kingdom II, a pair of miniseries for Danish television about a haunted hospital. A projected third installment in the series has been derailed due to the death of Ernst-Hugo Järegård, who played Helmer, one of the major characters. A thirteen-episode American television series, based on The Kingdom, was written by Stephen King, under the title Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, which was broadcast in 2004.

Von Trier added the "von" to his name when his peers at film school nicknamed him "von Trier". He also reportedly added the "von" in homage to Erich von Stroheim.

He has described himself in Interview magazine (June 1989) as "a melancholy Dane masturbating in the dark to images on the silver screen."

He has never been to the United States as he refuses to fly.

Filmography:

• Befrielsesbilleder/Image of relief (1982)
• Forbrydelsens element/The Element of Crime (1984)
• Epidemic (1987)
• Medea (TV movie, 1988)
• Europa/Zentropa (U.S. title) (1991)
• Riget/The Kingdom (TV miniseries, 1994)
• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• Riget II/The Kingdom II (TV miniseries, 1997)
• Idioterne/The Idiots (1998)
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Dogville (2003, part one of von Trier's "USA" trilogy)
• De Fem benspænd/The Five Obstructions (2003; co-directed with Jørgen Leth)
• Dear Wendy (2004, screenwriter; directed by Thomas Vinterberg)
• Manderlay (2005, part two of the "USA" trilogy)
• Washington (2006?, part three of the "USA" trilogy)

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