Zentropa or Zentropa Entertainments is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen.

It has produced over 70 feature films and has become the largest film production company in Scandinavia. It owns a number of subsidiary companies in Europe.^[1]

Zentropa may be best known for creating the Dogme 95-movement, leading to such acclaimed films as Idioterne (1998), Festen (1998) and Mifunes sidste sang (1999).

It was the first mainstream film company to produce hardcore pornographic films for women: Constance (1998), Pink Prison (1999), HotMen CoolBoyz (2000) and the adult/mainstream-crossover feature All About Anna (2005).

Zentropa is also responsible for creating a large studio complex called Filmbyen, where both Zentropa and many other film-related companies are located.

Zentropa is named from the train company Zentropa in the film Europa (1991), which started the collaboration between Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbæk Jensen.

Zentropa subsidiaries[link]

• EF Rental
• Electric Parc
• Puzzy Power
• Trust Film Sales
• Zentropa Real
• Zentropa Interaction
• Zentropa Rekorder
• Zentropa Klippegangen
• Zentropa International Köln GmbH
• Zentropa International Poland

Zentropa-productions[link]

• Lars von Trier's Europa (1991)
• Lars von Trier's Riget (1994)
• Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996)
• Lars von Trier's Riget II (1997)
• Knud Vesterskov's Constance (1998)
• Lisbeth Lynghøft's Pink Prison (1999)
• Knud Vesterskov's HotMen CoolBoyz (2000)
• Lone Scherfig's Italiensk for begyndere (2000)
• Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Jesper W. Nielsen's Okay (2002)
• Lars von Trier's Dogville (2003)
• Thomas Vinterberg's It's All About Love (2003)
• Lars von Trier's & Jørgen Leth's De fem benspænd (2003)
• Susanne Bier's Brødre (2004)
• Niels Arden Oplev's Ørnen: En krimi-odyssé (2004)
• Jessica Nilsson's All About Anna (2005)
• Lars von Trier's Manderlay (2005)
• Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy (2005)
• Lars von Trier's Direktøren for det hele (2006)
• Susanne Bier's Efter brylluppet (2006)
• Christian E. Christiansen's Om natten (2007)
• Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009)
• Mads Brügger's The Red Chapel (2010)

Sources[link]

1. ^ Zentropa has now established international companys around in Europa.

• Zentropa official site
• Filmbyen official site
• Zentropa at IMDb
• Interview with Peter Aalbæk Jensen

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Peter Aalbæk Jensen, September 2010. (Photo: Lars Schmidt.)

Peter Aalbæk Jensen (born 8 April 1956) is a Danish film producer who in 1992 with director Lars von Trier founded the Danish film company Zentropa and later its huge studio complex Filmbyen.

Zentropa is known for the Dogme95-manifesto and such projects as Dogville (2003) starring Nicole Kidman, Dancer in the Dark (2000) starring Björk and the Oscar-nominated After the Wedding (2006).

Peter Aalbæk Jensen has executive produced over 70 theatrical feature films and many television productions, has founded a long list of subsidiary companies and is widely regarded as the most important Danish film producer since the 1990s.[1]

In the fall of 2008, Peter Aalbæk Jensen was a judge on the Danish version of Got Talent.

Sources[link]

• Peter Aalbæk Jensen at IMDb
• Interview with Peter Aalbæk Jensen
• Zentropa at IMDb
• Zentropa official site
• Filmbyen official site

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