The Orchid Gardener

The Orchid Gardener (1977)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1977-05-06
  • User Rating: 5.5/10 from 12 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 37min
  • Language: Dansk
  • Production Country: Denmark
  • Director: Lars von Trier
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Summary

A young, mentally ill man, a visual artist in crisis Victor Marse (Lars von Trier) meets two nurses (Eliza and her girlfriend) during his stay in a sanatorium. These nurses are obvious lesbians. Victor lives with Eliza and her son. He imagines another woman when he is roaming at a coast. He pretends committing a suicide but Eliza does not react to it. Every moment, he stays in front of a blank canvas and thinks. Meanwhile he dresses into Nazi clothes or into women dresses, then he leaves to go to the cinema, and abuses and probably kills a small girl. His masochistic affair with Eliza lasts; he is close to shooting her with a gun but instead she takes out a whip. Victor goes along the streets then he lies naked in front of the canvas on which he has left his bloody fingerprints. After this he drives a funeral car to his work - he is employed in a garden where orchids are grown. Eliza is now the past and in the end, Victor might be dead as someone drives a cross into the ground.

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  • Lars von Trier

    as Victor Morse
  • Inger Hvidtfeldt

    as Eliza
  • Karen Oksbjerg

    as Eliza's girlfriend
Writing Lars von Trier Writer
Directing Lars von Trier Director
Crew Hartvig Jensen Cinematography
Crew Helge Kaj Cinematography
Crew Peter K. Nørgaard Cinematography

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