Director: Lars Von Trier
Screenwriters: Lars Von Trier, Thomas Gislason
Producer:Ole Reim
Cinematographer: Eric Kress
Editors: Jacob Thusen, Molly Marleen Stensgaard
Cast: Ernst-Hugo Jaregaard, Kirsten Rolfes, Soran Pilgaard
Music: Joachim Holbek
Print Source: October Films
279 minutes
This disturbing, darkly hilarious epic from the audacious Lars von Trier
(Zentropa) is set in a giant Copenhagen hospital built on a marshy medieval
burial ground. The film opens by informing us that "cracks are starting to
appear in the building's edifice," and it soon becomes clear that these
"cracks" are allowing the spirit world entree into the modern-day medical
center, as well as the lives of the building's denizens. What follows is an
outrageously entertaining soap opera that plays like a madcap of mating of
Twin Peaks and ER, with a touch of The Exorcist thrown in for good measure.
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