Louise Vesth (born 18 March 1973) is a Danish film producer . 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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in 1995 . She then worked for the

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Jutlandia Film for two years before attending Den Danske Filmskole. 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'' and the following year a film based on it. Klovn: The Movie won the audience prize at the Robert Festival, 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'', 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 '' The Truth About Men'' 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 '' Nymphomaniac'' . She is also a producer of a series of ''Adler-Olsen -Verfilmungen'' where Nikolaj Lie Kaas 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

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

Filmography

*2002: ''Just call me Axel'' (''Kald mig bare Aksel'') *2003: '' Kopps'' *2003: 2 ryk and 1 aflevering *2005–2009: '' Klovn'' (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'') *2016: ''Redemption'' (''Flaskepost fra P'') *2018: ''The House That Jack Built'' *2018: ''Contempt'' (''Journal 64'') *2022: ''Riget Exodus'' ('' The Kingdom Exodus'') (miniseries, 5 episodes) *2023: '' The Promised Land''

References

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