Peter Aalbæk Jensen

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“I think I am good at getting the right people aboard. That is more or less the only skill that I have. I face that I can do nothing myself, but at least I can bring the right people together. Who are the right people? That would be producers, financiers, scriptwriters, sometimes actors. Putting the crew and the talent together—that is my talent.”

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Denmark’s Peter Aalbæk Jensen (born in 1956) is a true maverick: a former rock music roadie who moved sideways into film, hooked up with Lars von Trier when both men were at ...

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