Louise Vesth (born March 18, 1973) is a

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. Her short film '' Om natten'' was nominated for an

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in the category Best

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in 2008.

Early life

Louise Vesth graduated from the

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with a

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economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

in 1995 . She then worked for the

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Jutlandia Film for two years before attending

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. In 2001 she graduated as a producer.Louise Vesth
zentropa.dk, retrieved 1 January 2013.

Career

Vesth then produced several films for the Danish film production company

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, starting in 2002 with the children's film ''Nenn michsim Axel'', which was nominated for Robert and won the Grand Prize of the German Children's Fund at the 2003

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. From 2005 to 2009 she produced the Danish

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Klovn ''Klovn'' ("Clown") is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank (played by Frank Hvam) and Casper (played by Casper Christensen). The show builds its comedy around qui ...

'' and the following year a film based on it. Klovn: The Movie won the audience prize at the

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, was nominated for the Bodil nomination and was in Denmark the most successful film of 2010. Another television production ''Vesths'' was the 2008 TV 2 broadcast TV Advent Mikkel og guldkortet. Vesth worked successfully with the Danish director Christian E. Christiansen (* 1972), among others . For their 2007 short film ''Om natten'' (international title: ''At Night''), in which three young women suffering from

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spend Christmas together in a clinic, Vesth and Christiansen received an Oscar nomination the following year . They also made films such as the drama ''

Råzone Life Hits ( da, Råzone) is a 2006 Danish drama film directed by Christian E. Christiansen and starring Laura Christensen, Stephanie Leon, Julie Ølgaard, and Sara Møller Olsen. The film tells the story of four close friends who deal with th ...

'', the children's film ''Zoomer'' and the thriller ''ID: A - Identity Anonymous'' . The

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counted Vesth 2008 among the Producers on the Move, d. H. to the young aspiring film producers in Europe. In 2011 Vesth was one of the producers of

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's award-winning

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film drama ''

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'', for which she won the

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.The 24th European Film Awards
europeanfilmacademy.org, retrieved 1 January 2013. Vesth produced the comedy ''

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'' with Danish director

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in 2010 and the period film '' The Queen and the Personal Doctor'' in 2012 . In 2013 she produced Lars von Trier's drama ''

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'' . She is also a producer of a series of ''Adler-Olsen -Verfilmungen'' where

Nikolaj Lie Kaas Nikolaj Lie Kaas (; born 22 May 1973) is a Danish actor whose career rose in the 1990s. Kaas graduated from the National Theater School in Denmark in 1998. He first appeared on screen in Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's film ''The Boys from St. Petri'' i ...

and

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play the main roles, starting in 2013 with ''

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'', about the published in the following year film ''

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'' (Book template desecration), ''

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'' (2016; book presentation '' redemption'') and

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(2018; original book contempt). In 2013 Vesth was awarded the

Erik Balling Erik Balling (29 November 1924 – 19 November 2005) was a Danish TV and film director. He created two of Denmark's most popular TV-series, ''Matador'' and '' Huset på Christianshavn''. His feature film '' Qivitoq'' (1956) was nominated f ...

s travel grant, which includes prize money of 50,000 kroner.

Filmography

*2002: ''Just call me Axel'' (''Kald mig bare Aksel'') *2003: ''

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'' *2003: 2 ryk and 1 aflevering *2005–2009: ''

'' (TV series, 37 episodes) *2005: '' Zozo'' *2006: ''Råzone'' *2007: ''Lazy in Denmark'' (''Hvordan vi slipper af med de andre'') *2007: ''Om natten'' *2007: ''Ekko'' *2008: ''Dig og mig'' *2008: ''Mikkel og guldkortet'' (TV series, 24 episodes) *2009: ''Zoomer'' (''Zoomerne'') *2009: ''The Orange Girl'' ('' Appelsinpiken'') *2010: ''The Truth About Men'' ('' Sandheden om mænd'') *2010: ''Klovn: The Movie'' * 2011: ''Melancholia'' *2011: ''ID: A - Identity anonymous'' (''ID: A'') *2012: ''The Queen and the Personal Physician'' ('' En kongelig affære'') *2013: ''Nymphomaniac'' *2013: ''Mercy'' ('' Kvinden i buret'') *2014: ''Lev strengthens'' *2014: ''Desecration'' (''

Fasandræberne ''The Absent One'' ( da, Fasandræberne), also known as ''Department Q: The Absent One'', is a 2014 Danish crime mystery film directed by and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's novel of the same name ...

'') *2016: ''Redemption'' (''Flaskepost fra P'') *2018: ''The House That Jack Built'' *2018: ''Contempt'' (''Journal 64'') *2022: ''Riget Exodus'' ('' The Kingdom Exodus'') (miniseries, 5 episodes)

References

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