
Writing
Niels Vørsel
Born 1953-12-09 · Aarhus, Danmark
Acting credits
5.7A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.
Epidemic
1987
German/French TV documentary portraying Danish film director Lars von Trier.
In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema
1998
A short documentary about the film Epidemic based on interviews with the cast, crew and a film historian.
Anecdotes from 'Epidemic'
2005
Documentary with interviews of the cast and crew of Lars von Trier's 1991 film "Europa."
Anecdotes from Europa
2005
Behind the camera
7.3Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
Europa
1991
6.4Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.
The Element of Crime
1984
7.8At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate.
The Kingdom
1994
7.6The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her.
The Kingdom II
1998
5.5A poetic gangster story and a thriller about the passage of time. Recorded between 1991 and 1997 but released in 2010; von Trier's long-running project was to premiere in 2024, but production was halted.
Dimension
2010
5.7A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.
Epidemic
1987
6.4Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
Kingdom Hospital
2004