| DIRECTOR: |
Lars Von
Trier |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Lars Von
Trier, Niels Vorsel |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Erik Kress |
| EDITION: |
Molly Malene
Stensgaard, Pernille Bech Christensen |
| MUSIC: |
Joachim
Holbeck |
| CAST: |
Ernst-Hugo
Järegard, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen |
| PRODUCER: |
Vibeke
Windelov, Svend Abrahamsen |
| FESTIVALS: |
Veneza |
| PRODUCTION: |
Zentropa
Entertainment, Copenhaghen 2100, Ryesgade 106A, 4
Tel: 00 45 31 424233
Fax: 00 45 31 424299 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Trust Film
Sales, Dublin 2 - Central Chambers, Dame Court |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Riget I |
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Col., 240 min., 1994 |
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Born in 1956. Graduated in 1983 from the
School of Cinema in Denmark and is acknowledged
as the most admired and creative filmmaker in his
country. Inspite of the success, he is subject to
a radical phobia: he will never travel by plane.
He directed Nocturne (1981) and Images of Relief
(1982), his graduation films. His first feature
The Element of Crime (1984), shown at the Ninth
São Paulo International Film Festival) was
followed by Epidemic (1987) and Medea (telefilm
of 1988), and Europa (1991), Kingdom I
(Eighteenth Film Festival), Breaking the Waves
(1996),
and Kingdom II.
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The
largest hospital in Denmark, ‘The Kingdom’, is
a setting for strange events. The high-tech center, a
metaphor of modern society, is transformed slowly and
subtly into a scenario for ‘powers from
beyond’. It all began in 1919, when Dr. Krüger
murdered his illegitimate daughter Mary. Decades later,
people began to hear cries for help from the girl, and
strange things began to happen – employees hear
messages from an misterious ambulance, a ghost visits the
surgery rooms, and frightening sounds are heard in the
elevators. A sensitive patient wants to bring Mary's
spirit rest, and a doctor finds out that she is pregnant
from a reincarnation of Dr. Krüger. Meanwhile, a doctor
does all he can to get hold of a contaminated liver for
his research. Originally, made as a TV series in four
episodes.