The Kingdom

★ 7.7IMDb Score
Released:1994-11-24
Duration:68 min
Director:Lars von Trier
Actors:Søren Pilmark, Ghita Nørby, Birgitte Raaberg, Peter Mygind, Solbjørg Højfeldt
Production:Zentropa Entertainments, Film i Väst, Ginger Pictures, DR, ARTE, Coproduction Office, Det Danske Filminstitut, Greco, La Sept-Arte, Liberator Productions, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS), Nordisk Film & TV Fond, NRK, RAI, SVT, SVT Malmö, TV Collaboration Fund, WDR, Zentropa International Sweden, BNP Paribas Fortis

Overview:

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

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