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Original LanguageDA

Release date7 Nov 2003

StatusReleased

Movie duration90 min / 1:30

Companies

Panic Productions Wajnbrosse Productions Almaz Film Productions Zentropa Entertainments

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Belgium Denmark France Switzerland

Keywords

third world animated scene director filmmaking

Cast

Claus Nissen

The Perfect Man (from Det perfekte menneske) (archive footage)

Majken Algren Nielsen

The Perfect Woman (from Det perfekte menneske) (archive footage)

Daniel Hernandez Rodriguez

The Perfect Man (segment "Cuba")

Jacqueline Arenal

The Perfect Woman (segment "Cuba")

Vivian Rosa

(segment "Cuba")

Jørgen Leth

Voice-over (from Det perfekte menneske) / Self - Director / +

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Jørgen Leth

Director

Carsten Holst

Producer

Peter Aalbæk Jensen

Executive Producer

Vibeke Windeløv

Executive Producer

Marianne Christensen

Line Producer

Magdalena García

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The Five Obstructions

Movie • 2003 • • 1:30 hours

De fem benspænd

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.