Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.
Jonatan Spang
as Erik Nietzsche
David Dencik
as Zelko
Søren Pilmark
as Mads
Søren Malling
as Hans Jørgen
Dejan Čukić
as Selkoff
Troels Lyby
as Bent
Carl Martin Norén
as Göran
Therese Damsgaard
as Karin
Mille Lehfeldt
as Margrethe
Line Bie Rosenstjerne
as Anna
Malin Brolin-Tani
as Stine
Lars von Trier
as Narrator (voice)
