Jørgen Leth

Jørgen Leth was born in Aarhus on 14 June 1937. He studied literature and anthropology in Aarhus and Copenhagen, wrote in the press on jazz, theatre and cinema from 1959, and published his first poems in 1962. He made more than forty films and from 1977 to 1982 chaired the board of the Danish Film Institute. Settled in Jacmel, in Haiti, he became honorary consul of Denmark there and commentated on the Tour de France for the channel TV 2; in 2005, the scandal arising from his autobiography cost him both. He returned to the microphone in 2009, left Haiti after the earthquake of 2010 and died on 29 September 2025.

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• CinemaThe Perfect HumanDet perfekte menneskeJørgen Leth · 1968Cinema