Lars von Trier (b. 1956) - a brawler and an innovator, an anarchist and heretic, the main troublemaker in modern European cinema, caressed by many prizes, the favorite director of the Cannes Film Festival director Gilles Jacob, an artist, provocatively frank and equally defiantly mysterious, author of the acclaimed manifesto “Dogma 95” and director of such film hits as “Criminal Element” and “Europe”, “The Kingdom” and “Breaking the Waves”, “The Idiots” and “Dancer in the Dark”, “Dogville” and “Manderlay”. Von Trier is a recognized hypochondriac and a brilliant organizer; he suffers from many phobias and does not go anywhere without his beloved kayak, comes up with new filming techniques and swims naked every day in the outdoor pool of his film studio "Tsentropa". Spanning von Trier's entire career, from his early short films to The Big Boss (2006), this book contains conversations with prominent Swedish filmmaker and film critic Stig Björkman.