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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1 (2007)
Directed by Jacob Thuesen
Overview
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.
Length 91 minutes
Actors
Jonatan Spang | David Dencik | Søren Pilmark | Søren Malling | Dejan Čukić | Troels Lyby | Carl Martin Norén | Therese Damsgaard | Mille Lehfeldt | Line Bie Rosenstjerne | Malin Brolin-Tani | Lars von Trier | Bodil Jørgensen | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Paprika Steen | Ditte Hansen | Jens Albinus | Christian Fuhlendorff | Patricia Schumann | Thomas Bendixen | Anders Nyborg | Birgit Thøt Jensen