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Lars von Trier

Befrielsesbilleder (Images of Relief)

Director Lars von Trier Composer Pierre de la Rue Cast Edward Fleming, Kirsten Olesen
57' - 1982 - War, Drama - Dialogue: Danish
A German officer fails to kill himself in the subterranean prison where Resistance men keep guard while burned bodies pass by, hanging from moving wire in front of cremation ovens. He escapes to find a Danish woman. She tells him that he cannot pass all responsibility for the blinding of a teenage boy on to the SS. She then appears to help him find an escape route through a forest, but instead has him trapped by the Resistance. She blinds him with a wooden dagger and leaves him to crawl among the trees where he once, as a child and also later, made attempts to make conversation with the birds.

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Credits

Directors

Lars von Trier

Composers

Pierre de la Rue

Cast

Edward Fleming, Kirsten Olesen

Scenario

Lars von Trier, Tom Elling

Director of Photography

Tom Elling

Editors

Tómas Gislason

Producers

Per Årman

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Dialogue

Danish

Countries of production

Denmark

Year

1982

Filmography

Lars von Trier
Befrielsesbilleder (1982), The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987), Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), The Idiots (1998), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville: The Pilot (2003), The Five Obstructions (2003), Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of It All (2006), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), Antichrist (2009), Dimension 1991-2024 (2010), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013), The House That Jack Built (2018)