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The Kingdom is a state of the art hospital which hides a dark secret... For underneath the corridors spirits are stirring...

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ProducerOle Reim

EAN5028836032014

eBay Product ID (ePID)102378841

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleThe Kingdom

DirectorLars Von Trier

LanguageDanish

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time573 Mins

Release Year2011

FormatDVD

FeaturesOriginal broadcast versions of both series one and two\Selected commentaries\Transformer: Portrait of Lars von Trier\In Lars Von Trier's Kingdom\Behind-the-scenes\TV commercials, With Subtitles

GenreHorror/Occult, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs4

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureDenmark

ComposerJoachim Holbek

Production DesignerJette Lehmann

Additional InformationDirector Lars von Trier puts his mischievous mind to work once again, this time creating a bizarre, humourous, and suspenseful tale about a Danish hospital that is haunted by ancient spirits. Copenhagen's largest hospital is nicknamed the Kingdom, and there are many odd things happening inside of it. The strange members of the medical staff have to contend with--not only such heinous matters as murder and malpractice--but also occurrences linked to the occult and the supernatural. When a hypochondriac patient--who also happens to be the mother of one of the staff's employees--begins to see the ghost of a young girl who is trying to tell her something, she unsuccessfully tries to convince the staff that she isn't delusional. It isn't until each individual begins to experience mysterious episodes for themselves that the Kingdom starts to collapse. And when a female doctor becomes pregnant, the fetus's alarming growth rate forces her to give birth prematurely, bringing the spirits to life. Filmed for Danish television, von Trier's quirky drama builds in tension up to its shocking finale.

ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - "...[A] slice of Danish surrealism....Haunt[s] like a vivid dream." -- Rating: B, New York Times - ...The film never forsakes its tone of deadpan earnestness....A prolonged tongue-in-cheek assault on film and television realism and ultimately on rationality itself..., Sight and Sound - ...As colourful a collection of oddballs as you could wish to see..., Premiere - ...The left-field extravaganza of the year....Adroit as well as funny..., Film Comment - ...[THE KINGDOM] shows that Trier has the sharpest, blackest sense of humor in modern Europe...

ScreenwriterTomas Gislason, Lars von Trier

AuthorNiels Vorsel, Lars von Trier

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorJacob Thuesen, Molly Malene Steensgaard

Movie/TV TitleThe Kingdom

Director of PhotographyEric Kress

Consumer AdviceContains infrequent strong horror and medical gore