The Five Obstructions

Lars von Trier (Dancer in The Dark, Dogville) now enters the world of documentary filmmaking alongside his idol, Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth. In 1967, Leth made a 12 minute feature film called The Perfect Human. Now, 35 years later, von Trier challenges Jorgen Leth to remake his film five times, each time with a new obstruction to force Leth to rethink the story and characters of the original film. Playing the na