Jørgen Leth

Born: 1937-06-14

Jørgen Leth is a Danish poet and film director who is considered a leading figure in experimental documentary film making. Most notable are his epic documentary A Sunday in Hell and his surrealistic short film The Perfect Human. He is also a sports commentator for Danish television and is represented by the film production company, Sunset Productions.


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The Five Obstructions

as Voice-over (from Det perfekte menneske) / Self - Director / +
Released: 2003-11-07

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film...

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The Erotic Man

as Himself
Released: 2010-09-26

The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the...

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Klown

as uncredited
Released: 2010-12-16

Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip....

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Corona Film Club

as Self
Released: 2021-05-05

Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when...

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The Perfect Human

as Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1968-06-14

An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The...

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Good and Evil

as Narrator
Released: 1975-05-26

Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the...

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I Walk

as himself
Released: 2020-10-22

Documentary about Danish filmmaker, sports journalist and poet Jørgen Leth who struggles after...

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Laamb

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2013-11-07

The rules are simple in Senegalese wrestling: First man down, loses. The sport derives from...

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66 Scenes from America

as Self
Released: 1982-03-27

As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is...

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Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life

as Self
Released: 2011-07-02

Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for...

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Gifts of Chance – a film about Jørgen Leth

as Himself
Released: 2020-03-01

Jørgen Leth looks back at more than 50 years as a filmmaker in a cheerful film, whose contagious...

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Født til Filmen

as Himself
Released: 2015-10-05

What are the consequences of a young person to be famous at an early age, being a public person?...

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Sanselighedens pris

as uncredited
Released: 2007-02-01

When the media storm flared up in the wake of Jørgen Leth's memoir "The Imperfect Man" in 2005,...

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Freedom of Space: Skateboard Culture and the Public Space

as Narrator
Released: 2006-05-26

A documentary about the interaction of skateboarding and public space. Shot in 2006 on 16mm Film...

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Spise med Price

as Fortæller
First aired: 2009-02-27

The artistically streaked brothers James and Adam Price learned early on to LOVE food and both...

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Hos Hans

as Self
First aired: 2018-09-17

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Mit Spanien

as uncredited
First aired: 2016-08-08

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Leth og Pilgaard indtager Danmark

as Self - Host
First aired: 2021-08-18

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