Director
Lars von Trier, Marten Arnfred
Composer
Joachim Holbek
Cast
Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Nørby, Søren Pilmark
Edition 2000
289'
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1997
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Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
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Dialogue:
Danish, Swedish
The first episode of ‘The Kingdom’ introduced the broadly drawn, melodramatic characters, their surreal situations and provided a mystery that was only partially solved. The ending of the first also left viewers with many unresolved questions: Will the arrogant, vitriolic Swedish neurosurgeon Helmer obtain the voodoo potion he needs to destroy the earnest young doctor Krogen before Krogen exposes him as a quack? Will the vengeful, crazed anesthetist Rigmor successfully force Helmer to marry her? What of Bondo, the surgeon who became a research guinea pig by having his Masonic brothers transplant a diseased liver into his body? What about Ruth who was tricked into pregnancy by a malevolent doctor's ghost? Will her baby be normal? Finally, will the intrepid hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse be able to help the hoards of ghosts accidentally released at the end of the last episode? In answering these and other questions, this series of episodes goes even further beyond reality's fringes than the first. (Sandra Brennan)
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Credits
Directors
Lars von Trier, Marten Arnfred
Composers
Joachim Holbek
Cast
Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Nørby, Søren Pilmark
Scenario
Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel
Director of Photography
Eric Kress
Editors
Molly Malene Stensgaard, Pernille Bech Christensen
Producers
Bo Lindquist
More info
Dialogue
Danish, Swedish
Countries of production
Italy, Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Sweden
Year
1997
Filmography
Lars von Trier
Befrielsesbilleder (1982), The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987), Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), The Idiots (1998), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville: The Pilot (2003), The Five Obstructions (2003), Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of It All (2006), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), Antichrist (2009), Dimension 1991-2024 (2010), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013), The House That Jack Built (2018)