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.
Jacob Thuesen
Director
Sebastian Blenkov
Director of Photography
Lars von Trier
Screenplay
Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Producer
Marie Gade Denessen
Producer
Vincent D'Hondt
Original Music Composer
Jonatan Spang
Erik Nietzsche
David Dencik
Zelko
Søren Pilmark
Mads
Søren Malling
Hans Jørgen
Dejan Čukić
Selkoff
Troels Lyby
Bent
Carl Martin Norén
Göran
Therese Damsgaard
Karin
Mille Lehfeldt
Margrethe
Line Bie Rosenstjerne
Anna
Malin Brolin-Tani
Stine
Lars von Trier
Narrator (voice)
