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Image of Relief
(Befrielsesbilleder)

Screening on Film
Directed by Lars von Trier.
With Edward Fleming, Kirsten Olesen.
Denmark, 1982, 35mm, color, 57 min.
Danish with English subtitles.

Lars von Trier’s rarely-screened “diploma film,” Image of Relief was completed as his final project for the National Film School of Denmark. The story concerns a German officer who escapes his internment and attempts to find his local mistress in the days following the liberation of Denmark. The film earned the young director a Best Film award at the Munich Film Festival.

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