Epidemic

A filmmaker and a screenwriter are developing a script about a deadly epidemic spreading across the world, unaware that a real outbreak is taking hold around them. Lars von Trier collapses the boundaries between fiction and reality in a radically self-reflexive experiment, turning the process of filmmaking into a meditation on disease, violence and Europe’s haunted past — Epidemic emerges as the second part of the European trilogy.

Duration: 106’
Production year: 1987
Country: DK
Language: DA, EN, LA, DE Subtitles: PT-BR

Upcoming sessions

18:30

Culturgest

Small Auditorium

Cannes Film Festival 1987
Fantasporto 1988

Lars von Trier

Born in 1956, Lars von Trier has established himself as the most ambitious and visually distinctive Danish filmmaker on the contemporary scene. He made his feature film debut with The Element of Crime (1984), which earned him international recognition, and solidified his reputation with Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998). In 1995, he co-founded the Dogme 95 movement, which advocated a more austere and naturalistic approach to filmmaking. His work is characterised by formal experimentation, the subversion of cinematic conventions, and an exploration of the limits of representation. Dancer in the Dark (2000), winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, marked one of the most acclaimed moments of his career. Subsequent films such as Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac: Vol. I and Vol. II (2013), and The House That Jack Built (2018) further confirmed the diversity and radical nature of his trajectory within European and international cinema.