Denmark released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Danish ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 3-DVD Set, Box Set, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Collection comprises the Portraits, a collective term that, with a bit of goodwill, can be stretched to cover all eight films in the set. They range far - from ballet to Danish literature and sports. In this box set, we find Leth's ballet films about the dancer Peter Martins and the Bournonville steps and tradition alongside literary portraits of the Danish authors Klaus Rifbjerg and Søren Ulrik Thomsen, plus a many-headed portrait of illustrious Danish writers from H.A. Brorson to Michael Strunge, and, finally, his films about sports icons, the footballer Michael Laudrup and the boxer Ayub Kalule. In all three areas, the filmmaker strives to portray people and situations by zeroing in on the creative process itself. In fact, this could be a header for Jørgen Leth's entire work. His fascination with the creative process and an individual's work with his material, the will to transcend one's limitations to achieve the sublime, is a clear and recurrent theme. It's evident in Laudrup's virtuosic ball-handling, in Thomsen reading his poetry and elaborating on the nature of poetry and the form of poems, and in Martin using his body and intellect to translate the language of choreography into movement through space, giving shape to the sublime by putting in the hours in the rehearsal studio. The filmmaker's fascination reins him in. In the way he shapes his fascination through objective detachment and a formalist approach, we recognise the method of anthropological ...Jørgen Leth Collection 22-29 - 3-DVD Box Set ( Peter Martins, en danser / At danse Bournonville / Step on Silence / Klaus Rifbjerg / Dansk litteratur /
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 ounces
- Director : Jørgen Leth
- Media Format : Import, PAL, Subtitled
- Run time : 441 minutes
- Actors : Ulf Pilgaard, George Balanchine, Daniel Duell, Suzanne Farrell, Jørgen Leth
- Subtitles: : English
- Producers : Jørgen Leth Collection 22-29 - 3-DVD Box Set ( Peter Martins, en danser / At danse Bournonville / St, Jørgen Leth Collection 22-29 - 3-DVD Box Set, Peter Martins, en danser / At danse Bournonville / Step on Silence / Klaus Rifbjerg / Dansk litterat, Peter Martins: A Dancer / Dancing Bournonville / Step on Silence / Klaus Rifbjerg / Danish Literatur
- Language : Danish (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Country of Origin : Denmark
- Number of discs : 3
