| DIRECTOR: |
Lars Von
Trier |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Lars Von
Trier, Niels Vorsel |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Erik Kress |
| EDITION: |
Molly Malene
Stensgaard, Pernille Bech Christensen |
| MÚSICA: |
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 II |
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Col., 295 min., 1997 |
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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 Nocturns (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),The Kingdom I
(Eighteenth Film Festival), Breaking the Waves
(1996), and The Kingdom II.
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Lars
von Trier was not expecting this. The first four episodes
of The Kingdom, concluded in 1994, attracted crowds of
fanatics and followers familiar with the idiosyncrasies
of each and every character, who cheer them on and amuse
themselves with them wherever the series is exhibited, in
the cinema and on television. The film was made to
frighten and to frighten a great deal. It describes a
hospital with ghosts of former patients. And to make the
situation worse, built on ancient suspect terrain where
mist is constant.In the second part of the series, the
spirits gain form and the old character Drusse, the only
one who knows of their existence, is run over by a
phantom ambulance. And more: Little Brother is born - the
Demon-Baby, following Dr Judith’s pregnancy. The
pace is frantic just as in the first part of the series.
In spite of everything, the hospital cannot stop.