The Orchid Gardener
1977 · 37 MIN · IMDB 4.8 · 366 VOTES · DIR. Lars von Trier
Overview
A young, mentally ill man, a visual artist in crisis Victor Marse (Lars von Trier) meets two nurses (Eliza and her girlfriend) during his stay in a sanatorium. These nurses are obvious lesbians. Victor lives with Eliza and her son. He imagines another woman when he is roaming at a coast. He pretends committing a suicide but Eliza does not react to it. Every moment, he stays in front of a blank canvas and thinks. Meanwhile he dresses into Nazi clothes or into women dresses, then he leaves to go to the cinema, and abuses and probably kills a small girl. His masochistic affair with Eliza lasts; he is close to shooting her with a gun but instead she takes out a whip. Victor goes along the streets then he lies naked in front of the canvas on which he has left his bloody fingerprints. After this he drives a funeral car to his work - he is employed in a garden where orchids are grown. Eliza is now the past and in the end, Victor might be dead as someone drives a cross into the ground.
Dialogue Timeline — 101 lines
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00:00:01 to Anna
00:01:29 And actually his name was Felimann von Marseburg
00:01:48 but Victor hadn't heard about the pogroms
00:02:03 and really believed that they would...
00:02:24 He was always afraid of not being capable.
00:02:49 from back then a long time ago.
00:03:15 And this is she to the left with the beautiful hair
00:03:37 THE ORCHID GARDENER
00:05:55 They were together too much
00:11:05 Victor Marse had studied women
00:11:47 And he had learnt that women always
00:12:05 but at once he knew
00:14:30 quite a slight girl.
00:19:12 I'm not Eliza.
00:19:36 that he really... that he really believed and yearned.
00:27:26 You know I cherish you.
00:28:12 If you gave me a chance.
00:31:55 I was in his warm embrace.
00:32:11 Sometimes it isn't only your health that cigarettes damage.
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