Jørgen Leth Movies

Writer and cineast Jørgen Leth is the fascinated observer of a country where reality often seems surreal and resembles fiction....

Short film about hippie life in Nepal.

As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy...

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic...

With a slow introductory zoom onto Leth in a TV studio and a corresponding zoom out at the end Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee may be...

Jørgen Leth looks back at more than 50 years as a filmmaker in a cheerful film, whose contagious enthusiasm initiates us in his special poetry.

Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda...

A late 1970s look at Danish ballet star Peter Martins's art and an assessment of what makes him unique and highly lauded on the international stage...

A documentary about the Danish artist John Kørner.

A personal essay on the play of children and grown-ups all over the world. The director has shot the film in different countries and cultures: Bali,...

Music for Black Pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to...

A portrayal of a Haitian Rara festival in action.

Anthology of six experimental films. 1) Allan de Waal: Investigation of an abandoned hippie house. 2) Bjørn Nørgaard and Lene Adler...

A stil-life of marvellous Danish footballer Michael Laudrups performance on the Barcelona dreamteam 1989-94.

Documentary about Danish filmmaker, sports journalist and poet Jørgen Leth who struggles after surviving a major earthquake in Haiti.

A study of the basic elements of film, first and foremost framing and the relationship between image and sound. The film consists of shots of a...

Jørgen Leth's experimental take on Ophelia's madness scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

In 1984 Jørgen Leth, cinematographer Dan Holmberg and sound recordist Niels Torp travelled some 6,000 kilometres by train through China. The...

A documentary short about the director's home town of Aarhus, Denmark.

Portraying the four seasons of the nature in the famous Danish garden Dyrehaven.