Images of Liberation

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Movie
German title Images of Liberation
Original title Befrielsesbi leather
Country of production Denmark
original language German , Danish
Publishing year 1982
length 57 minutes
Rod
Director Lars from Trier
script Lars von Trier
Tom Elling
production Per Årman
music Pierre de la Rue
camera Tom Elling
cut Tomas Gislason
occupation

Pictures of Liberation ( Befrielsesbilleder ) from 1982 is the first feature film by Danish director Lars von Trier . Most of the game scenes consist of uneventful plan sequences. Von Trier is looking for a metaphysics based on Andrei Arsenjewitsch Tarkowski that goes as far as mutilation. The first two thirds of the film consist of monochrome dark red, after which it changes to color. The archive pictures of street scenes in which citizens used violence against individuals during the liberation of Denmark in 1945 are also colored in this dark red.

action

In the last days of the Second World War, the Danish people on the streets cheer for the coming end of the German occupation. The German officer Leo thinks of his Danish lover Esther, with whom the war brought him together. His scattered squad with members of different ranks no longer has any connection to the command. The men are in a ruin where it is raining and iron chains are hanging down. Several of them kill each other.

Leo puts the barrel of his pistol in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The gun no longer contains bullets. He goes to a nearby pavilion. There Esther appears with a black American soldier with whom she kisses. After noticing him, she reproaches him in a kind of monologue. Later they stay in the forest. She explains that there is no love in his eyes. While armed Danes are holding him to a tree with a safety net, she takes a pointed stick and stabs both eyes out of him. Thereupon he pats through the forest and ascends with closed eyes in a kind of ascension. She gets in the car and muses.

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