Jørgen Leth Collection 22-29 - 3-DVD Box Set ( Peter Martins, en danser / At danse Bournonville / Step on Silence / Klaus Rifbjerg / Dansk litteratur / Jeg er levende - Søren Ulrik Thomsen, digter / Kalule / Michael Laudrup - en fodboldspiller ) ( Peter Martins: A Dancer / Dancing Bournonville / Step on Silence / Klaus Rifbjerg / Danish Literature / I Am Alive / Kalule / Michael Laudrup: A Football Player )

Jørgen Leth Collection 22-29 - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Peter Martins, en danser / At danse Bournonville / Step on Silence / Klaus Rifbjerg / Dansk litteratur / Jeg er levende - Søren Ulrik Thomsen, digter / Kalule / Michael Laudrup - en fodboldspiller
Alternate Title: Peter Martins: A Dancer / Dancing Bournonville / Step on Silence / Klaus Rifbjerg / Danish Literature / I Am Alive / Kalule / Michael Laudrup: A Football Player
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
441 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1974 - 1999 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jørgen Leth

Written By:
Jørgen Leth
Ole John

Actors:
George Balanchine ..... Himself
Daniel Duell ..... Himself
Suzanne Farrell ..... Herself
Jørgen Leth ..... Narrator
Peter Martins ..... Himself
Jerome Robbins ..... Himself
Heather Watts ..... Herself
Stanley Williams ..... Himself
Jørgen Leth
Klaus Rifbjerg ..... Himself
Birgitte Bruun ..... Herself
Inger Christensen ..... Herself
Per Højholt ..... Himself
Erik Knudsen ..... Himself
Peter Laugesen ..... Himself
Preben Lerdorff Rye ..... Himself
Svend Åge Madsen ..... Himself
Erik Mørk ..... Himself
Ulf Pilgaard ..... Himself
Jørgen Reenberg ..... Himself
Peter Seeberg ..... Himself
Søren Ulrik Thomsen ..... Himself
Jørgen Hansen ..... Himself - Boxer
Ayub Kalule ..... Himself - Boxing Coach
Børge Krogh ..... Narrator
Jørgen Leth ..... Himself - Boxer
Richard Palladin ..... Himself - Boxer
Sugar Ray Seales
Michael Laudrup ..... Himself (also archive footage)
Johan Cruyff ..... Himself - Coach, FC Barcelona

Synopsis:

Collection comprises the Portraits, a collective term that, with a bit of goodwill, can be stretched to cover all eight films in the set. They range far - from ballet to Danish literature and sports. In this box set, we find Leth's ballet films about the dancer Peter Martins and the Bournonville steps and tradition alongside literary portraits of the Danish authors Klaus Rifbjerg and Søren Ulrik Thomsen, plus a many-headed portrait of illustrious Danish writers from H.A. Brorson to Michael Strunge, and, finally, his films about sports icons, the footballer Michael Laudrup and the boxer Ayub Kalule. In all three areas, the filmmaker strives to portray people and situations by zeroing in on the creative process itself. In fact, this could be a header for Jørgen Leth's entire work. His fascination with the creative process and an individual's work with his material, the will to transcend one's limitations to achieve the sublime, is a clear and recurrent theme. It's evident in Laudrup's virtuosic ball-handling, in Thomsen reading his poetry and elaborating on the nature of poetry and the form of poems, and in Martin using his body and intellect to translate the language of choreography into movement through space, giving shape to the sublime by putting in the hours in the rehearsal studio. The filmmaker's fascination reins him in. In the way he shapes his fascination through objective detachment and a formalist approach, we recognise the method of anthropological observation that is such a strong thread in Leth's works.

Peter Martins: A Dancer (1978)
Dancing Bournonville (1979)
Step on Silence (1982)
Klaus Rifbjerg (1974)
Danish Literature (1989)
I Am Alive (1999)
Kalule (1979)
Michael Laudrup: A Football Player (1993)

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 26 September, 2011.

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