Scent and Sensibility

The last thing Danish production company Zentropa Real wants is a sure thing. 'We like to do things that haven't been tried or done before,' says Troels Rasmussen, ceo of the one-year-old documentary unit of Zentropa Productions, director Lars von Trier's (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) feature film company. 'The documentaries where you yourself are a little unsure of whether it will succeed or not, because then you have the drive and the filmmaker has something at stake.'
October 1, 2001

The last thing Danish production company Zentropa Real wants is a sure thing. 'We like to do things that haven't been tried or done before,' says Troels Rasmussen, ceo of the one-year-old documentary unit of Zentropa Productions, director Lars von Trier's (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) feature film company. 'The documentaries where you yourself are a little unsure of whether it will succeed or not, because then you have the drive and the filmmaker has something at stake.'

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