Jørgen Leth Movies

An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern...

A chronology of the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bicycle race from the perspective of participants, organizers and spectators.

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...

The Impossible Hour is a concentrated study of Ole Ritter's attempt in Mexico City in 1974 to set a new record for the hour - described in the film...

At danse Bournonville is a portrait of the Bournonville tradition at the Royal Danish ballet that has survived for 150 years on the basis of a few...

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,...

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

The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is...

Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip. Frank's mate Casper is also coming along. Weighed down a...

The first short film in Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions.

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

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a...

Step on Silence was made from raw material from Peter Martins - en danser but unlike the traditional way the Martins film communicates its material...

Various street performers in action.

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

The rules are simple in Senegalese wrestling: First man down, loses. The sport derives from ritual manhood trials and has developed into a national...

A documentary about the Danish artist John Kørner.

An insight into the work by composer and pianist Herman D. Koppel with the American Cantilena Quartet before the first performance of his piano...

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...