The Five Obstructions

Lars von Trier broke into the world of documentary film. Along with him challenge conventional documentary film and filmmaking in the usual way gave the Danish documentary film veteran Jц?rgen Leth. These directors have decided to lay bare the very essence of film. To get to its basic elements, to reach full simplify the image and sound. In 1967 Jц?rgen Leth took dvenadtsatiminutny short film "The Perfect Human" / Perfekte menneske, Det / (1967), a document on human behavior, covering all the most important themes that permeate all creativity Jorgen Summer. Trier admires this film, he claimed, he watched it over 20 times. In 2000, Lars von Trier invited Jц?rgen oblivion off with five remakes of this film, each time Trier put obstacles in front of him, causing Summer to rethink the plot and characters of the characters, shot in 1967. Pretending to be naive anthropologist years trying to overcome the cunning obstacles erected by in front of him cunning and insidious Trier. Five times oblivion had to obey the orders of Trier, introduced them to overcome the restrictions and prohibitions. This is - the game with clever traps and slippery twists. This fascinating, unprecedented film about the filmmakers is not just a return to one of the first movies of summer, but he reconsidered and re-creation. "The Five Obstructions" - a study of the process of filmmaking and the exciting journey to his native essence.