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Danish Literature (1989)

Danish Literature poster
Original title
Dansk litteratur
Directed by
Jørgen Leth
Genre
short film, documentary film
Country
Denmark
Runtime
44 min
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Danish documentary in which director Jorgen Leth selects 27 poets from different centuries. The poets or actors read their texts aloud while the film offers a view of Denmark through its literature.

calmreflectiveseriouspoeticmeditativeeducationalnostalgiccerebralslow-paced

What happens

Dansk litteratur er en dokumentarfilm instrueret af Jørgen Leth efter eget manuskript. Instruktøren foretog et personligt valg, da han fik opgaven: Lav en film om dansk litteratur. Jørgen Leth valgte 27 danske digtere - fra århundreder tilbage til i dag - og lod dem præsentere gennem oplæsning af tekster, som foretages enten af digterne selv eller af skuespillerne Preben Lerdorff Rye, Erik Mørk, Ulf Pilgaard, Birgitte Price og Jørgen Reenberg. Filmen er - også - et blik på Danmark og indeholder stemninger, tanker og drømme i den danske litteratur, repræsenteret af Klaus Rifbjerg, Thomas Kingo, Ludvig Holberg, Hans Adolph Brorson, Ole Sarvig, Johannes Ewald, Per Højholt, Ambrosius Stub, Karen Blixen, Steen Steensen Blicher, Svend Åge Madsen, Schack Staffeldt, Jens August Schade, Adam Oehlenschläger, Inger Christensen, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Michael Strunge, B.S. Ingemann, Peter Seeberg, H.C. Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Peter Laugesen, Emil Aarestrup, Herman Bang, J.P. Jacobsen, Thøger Larsen og Erik Knudsen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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