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.
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Jonatan Spang as Erik Nietzsche
Lars von Trier as Narrator
Mille Lehfeldt as Margrethe (as Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt)
David Dencik as Zelko
Carl Martin Norén as Göran
Therese Damsgaard as Karin
Søren Pilmark as Mads
Bodil Jørgensen as Katrine Bonfils
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Sammy
Paprika Steen as Ursula Østdal
Ditte Hansen as Filosofilærer
Troels Lyby as Bent
Jens Albinus as Troels Højbjerg
Christian Fuhlendorff as Lille Fotograf
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