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- An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.
- A variation of the New Testament report of the last supper, as it was presented on Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting.
- Almost 100 Danes - including a cyclist, a minister of finances, a popular actress, and 13 single women from province - try to convey a realistic impression of Denmark, different from the usual view as a little, exotic, and strange country.
- Per is an outsider and a charming provocateur who intrudes on former friends, a younger couple in a bourgeois environment on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen. Desperately, and in vain, Per tries to re-establish contact with his old friends through this unconventional, but at the same time frozen and past life form.
- Motion Picture is an experimental film with and not about the Danish tennis player Torben Ulrich, who is merely credited as "Example". The film may be viewed as a study of the nature of the medium and more specifically of the phenomena of framing, movement, and synchronicity of sound and picture. The material consists of Ulrich training strokes against a wall, volleys at the net and serves, but also of strange enactments in which Ulrich runs towards the camera, arms and legs twitching, dances a crazy racket dance or fakes slow motion as he sits down at a table and pours a cup of tea. These are all studies of movement. At the same time, the framing is absolute: Ulrich moves in and out of the picture without any attempt by the camera to follow him, thus constantly emphasising the role of framing. The complex nature of film is indicated by Jørgen Leth's little appearances as a living clapperboard for synchronizing sound and image. Jørgen Leth and Ole John ran the film through the camera several takes to create a couple of doubly-exposed scenes, and the result is the mysterious perception of several Torben Ulrichs serving on top of one another almost as if in a choreographed dance. One last narrative element introduced several places in the film is very sparse subtitles, such as "table chair tea". At the premiere at the Carlton cinema Motion picture as shown before Francois Truffaut's L'enfant Savage.
- Leth directed one of the six parts of this film anthology initiated by Werner Pedersen, the head of SFC [Statens Film Central, the National Film Board of Denmark, later amalgamated into the DFI]. Bjørn Nørgaard and Lene Adler Petersen's celebrated "action" in which the latter walked through the Copenhagen Bourse building stark naked with a crucifix in one hand is included in the film, and in general it is a highly experimental work, typical of its time, in which each artist worked freely, suing his or her own imaginations and filmic methods. Leth's contribution is a black and white, frontal shot of a hippie girl talking to the camera in English about her attire and other subjects. Leth's voice is heard off screen, emphasising the artifice of the medium.
- Portraying the four seasons of the nature in the famous Danish garden Dyrehaven.
- A fable about people's need for contact and distorted contact options, resulting in the cruel story of the lonely, frightened thug's murder of the postman after having presented him with the choice: The letters or life - and whether they follow, the murder gets for the thug himself and his equally terrified fellows.
- Three women are isolated in a bedroom. A little pig is first loved as a pet, but is later castrated. Symbolizing the wretched man. Out in the dark, a dangerous man, Dracula, is a constant threat.
- The Danish artist Henry Heerup's garden in Rødovre is also his studio. Here he paints in the summer, carving sculptures in the winter. His garden is filled with rubbish models, pictures for bleaching, and monuments of all sorts.
- The headmaster of a Copenhagen suburban school, Rektor 'Polle', summons Hugo Knudsen, chief editor of the school magazine Kirsebærstenen (The Cherry Stone) and announces that the magazine must be closed because of its critical writings. Hugo doesn't give in without fighting, and he unites with fellow pupils (mainly 6th graders) to make sure the magazine survives. The pupils start their opposition, including demonstrations, fighting the teachers, and even occupying the school kitchen, staying there for days. They also contact nearby homes for elderly people who unite with the pupils in their struggle for free speech. The antagonism gets settled through negotiations, but were the results really satisfying to Hugo?
- About the Nordic spring in a spiritual sense. Ofelia gathers her flowers and her crumbled world in a bouquet of strange and wonderful dream visions.
- The documentary investigates what happened to power. Who took it - and what are the fundamentals for a thriving democracy?
- Fairy tale about a fictional "Chinese" people's municipality in Denmark which has introduced the true people's democracy: Full co-determination in all areas, including business. Equal pay for unequal work. Equal rights for all - young and old. The municipality has even abolished jealousy and stress. However, are Chairman Mao's thoughts on society maybe too foreign to Danish conditions?