The Orchid Gardener (1977)
37m
Running Time
May 6, 1977Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Lars von Trier
Victor Morse / Writer / Director

Inger Hvidtfeldt
Eliza

Karen Oksbjerg
Eliza's girlfriend

Hartvig Jensen
Cinematography

Peter K. Nørgaard
Cinematography

Brigitte Pelissier
The Thrird Girl

Helge Kaj
Cinematography

Carl-Henrik Trier
The Old Jew
Media.

Details.
Release DateMay 6, 1977
Original NameOrchidégartneren
StatusReleased
Running Time37m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Orchid Gardener (Danish: Orchidégartneren) is a 1977 Danish experimental featurette written, produced, shot, edited, and directed by Lars von Trier.
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