Jørgen Leth's personal, pleasurable distillation of Danish literature covers seven poets alive at the time of production and twenty classical poets. A handful of actors share readings of the classical texts in semi close ups against a dark background; the living poets read their own works.
Jørgen Leth
Writer, Director
Inger Christensen
Self
Per Højholt
Self
Erik Knudsen
Self
Peter Laugesen
Self

Preben Lerdorff Rye
Self
Svend Åge Madsen
Self

Erik Mørk
Self

Ulf Pilgaard
Self

Birgitte Price
Self
McQueen74%
Public Speaking70%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Sherman's March67%
Above Majestic73%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Maternal Instinct71%
21 Up74%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
My Mom Jayne80%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Love, Antosha74%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me85%