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Kristian Levring was born on 9 May, 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a Danish film director (born 1957). Discover Kristian Levring's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Occupation Film director, screenwriter, film editor
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 9 May 1957
Birthday 9 May
Birthplace Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality Denmark

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1864

The story follows the character Jon, a Danish "ex-soldier who moved to the States after losing to the Germans on the battlefield in 1864," according to Variety.

Levring has stated that during this era, about half of all people on the American frontier did not speak English, which was the entry-point for him to produce a film about the American west.

In developing the film, Levring used both Western films and Nordic mythology as inspiration.

In an interview with Reader's Digest, Levring stated of the film's subject matter that, "You could see the Western frontier as the beginning of civilization, and I’m very interested in the nature of civilization. Often these places are a microscope: you can look at these characters and see how they behave in quite extreme situations. Civilization is quite a thin varnish, and when you take that away it’s interesting to see what happens."

Levring both cowrote and directed the film.

1900

The film follows two British expatriates and their lives in a remote Asian ivory trading station during the early 1900s, where the small community falls apart under the pressures of the foreign lands and daily struggles to survive.

The film has been described as, "an expressionistic and densely textured revisitation of The Heart of Darkness in the jungles of Malaysia."

The film opened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

1957

Kristian Levring (born 9 May 1957) is a Danish film director.

He was the fourth signatory of the Dogme95 movement.

His feature films as director include Et skud fra hjertet, The King is Alive, The Intended, Fear Me Not, and The Salvation.

Kristian Levring was born in 1957 in Copenhagen.

He later became a graduate of the National Film School of Denmark.

Kristian Levring began his career as a documentarian, editing a number of feature-length documentaries and Danish-language feature films during the first two decades of his time as a filmmaker.

He also worked as a director for television commercials.

1986

His first feature film he directed was Et skud fra hjertet (Shot from the Heart), released in 1986.

Kristian Levring was the fourth signatory of the Dogme95 movement, however moved away from this style towards the end of the aughts.

1995

He co-signed the original manifesto in 1995 alongside Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen.

2000

Levring released the film The King is Alive in 2000.

The Guardian describes the film as following, "bus passengers stranded in the Namibian desert, who decide to stage their own private performance of King Lear to pass the time until help arrives."

The passengers are stranded in an abandoned mining town in the middle of the Sahara.

The film utilized Lear as a foil for European society reaching a terminal crisis.

The words of Lear are used to further show the disintegration of the group into chaos under the pressure of their stranding.

While one of the members is sent on a five-day journey to get help, the social relationships that Levring explores among those that stay behind include gender, marital, and the racial elements of the relationship between the passengers and the bus driver.

The film was named an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival upon its premiere.

The film has many elements in line with the Dogme95 cinematic beliefs, including placing film as a post-apocalyptic art form.

Jan Simons wrote that, "The King is Alive allows us to see Dogma 95 in actu, as it were. With no decor and no costumes, in the natural light of the sun's glare, and with no recourse to the technical resources of theatre, the amateur actors study their roles; Henry writes everybody's lines out by hand, from memory."

Referencing to the rules of Dogma 95 are also found throughout the film.

The New York Times wrote of Levring's work on the film that,

"'Mr. Levring's vision of hell is vivid and stark but -- thanks to that empty, endless desert -- touched with a pictorial sublimity rarely attempted within the constraints of the Dogma aesthetic. The unsparing, invasive naturalism of digital video, which seems specially calibrated to register the play of anxiety and distress on human faces, also records an inhuman landscape of undulating dunes and blinding sky. The juxtaposition creates a sense of loneliness and panic, a stomach-turning dread that makes the survival instinct look almost comically weak.'"

2002

In 2002, Levring co-wrote and directed The Intended.

2008

In 2008, Levring and the other Dogme 95 founders were honoured with the Achievement in World Cinema award at the European Film Awards.

In 2008 Levring directed Fear Me Not.

The film explores the issues of prescription medication on the psychology of families, following the protagonist as they try the use of antidepressants to cure his malaise stemming from workaholism.

The protagonist soon becomes paranoid and starts to fear his spouse.

The plot is reminiscent of the narrative of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the rights were sold to IFC.

The film also opened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

2014

Levring's western film titled The Salvation, starred Mads Mikkelsen and was screened at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it became an Official Selection.

Levring filmed the movie in South Africa, setting it in the American frontier.