De Ydmygede (The Humiliated)

Lars von Trier is celebrated for the out-and-out staging of events – and not least of himself. And he is notorious for his temperamental relationship with the cast, whom he loves and despises alternately. ‘The Humiliated’ follows the birth of the Dogma film ‘The Idiots’ at truly close quarters. The director, Jesper Jargil, captures the vulnerable, stormy creative process which Trier himself called ‘a whipped-up state of emotion that is the technique of the film itself’. The result is a unique, frequently amusing portrait of Lars von Trier and his method.