The Making of EUROPA
Europa • 39m
This documentary, produced by Same Films in 1991, covers the making of EUROPA from its conception as the third chapter in director Lars von Trier’s Europa trilogy through the painstaking storyboarding process to the film’s full-scale production.
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Trier’s Element
This documentary features an interview with director Lars von Trier as well as footage from both the set of EUROPA and the film’s premiere and press conference at Cannes in 1991.
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Anecdotes from EUROPA
This short 2005 documentary about EUROPA’s production features interviews with film historian Peter Schepelern, actor Jean-Marc Barr, producer Peter Aalbaek Jensen, assistant director Tomas Gislason, cowriter Niels Vorsel, and prop master Peter Grant.
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Henning Bendtsen on His Career
In this 2005 interview, Henning Bendtsen talks about his early experiences as a young director of photography for Carl Theodor Dreyer and about his final films, made with Lars von Trier.
