Good and Evil
( Det gode og det onde )
Jørgen Leth
1975 - Danemark - Noir & Blanc - 77'
Photography : Henning Camre
Sound : Ole Henning Hansen
Editing : Franz Ernst
Production : Jørgen Leth Film
Distribution : Danish Film Institute (thomasc@dfi.dk, +45 33 74 35 76)
Jørgen Leth
1975 - Danemark - Noir & Blanc - 77'
Jørgen Leth has described his film as a collage or a catalogue of life. Elsewhere, he has called it a surrealist comedy. A bit of everything, it looks like no other film ever made. This central work makes a grotesque attempt to organise life according to a series of captions, cataloguing life’s elements. No more, no less. A series of tableaux show-cases actors and other well-known Danes as “examples” of the emotions, conditions or particular phenomena discussed by the neutral, authoritative voiceover: Faces, Bodies, Objects, Necesarry Acts, Unnecessary Acts, Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts and more. Leth opens with a typical statement: “Life is interesting. We will study it.”
Photography : Henning Camre
Sound : Ole Henning Hansen
Editing : Franz Ernst
Production : Jørgen Leth Film
Distribution : Danish Film Institute (thomasc@dfi.dk, +45 33 74 35 76)