Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Bodil Jørgensen | ... | Karen |
Jens Albinus | ... | Stoffer | |
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Anne Louise Hassing | ... | Susanne |
Troels Lyby | ... | Henrik | |
Nikolaj Lie Kaas | ... | Jeppe | |
Louise Mieritz | ... | Josephine | |
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Henrik Prip | ... | Ped |
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Luis Mesonero | ... | Miguel |
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Knud Romer Jørgensen | ... | Axel |
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Trine Michelsen | ... | Nana |
Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis | ... | Katrine | |
Paprika Steen | ... | High Class Lady | |
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Erik Wedersøe | ... | Stoffer's Uncle |
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Michael Moritzen | ... | Man From Municipality |
Anders Hove | ... | Josephine's Father |
A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form intellect by living together in a community of "idiots". Their main activity becomes going out into the world of "normal" people and pretending to be mentally retarded. They take advantage of this situation to create anarchy everywhere they go and try by every possible means to make people annoyed, disturbed, miserable, ridiculous, angered, and shocked. The film starts as they recruit a new lost soul and introduce her to their megalomaniac leader. Written by Matthieu Navarro
In Epidemic, one of his previous films, Lars von Trier noted that "a film must be like a stone in the shoe". Eleven years after Epidemic, Lars von Trier is famous, his budgets grew larger and so do the stones he puts in the spectators shoes. No, reality is never what you think it is. It stops moving when you expect it to rush, and than it rushes in a way that makes you dizzy. People that you considered to be serious collapse when it comes to testing their intentions in reality, and people that you never took a note of will prove to be the real heroes of life. At the same time Lars von Trier and his excellent actor ensemble try to explain why (non violent) social experiments always fail, in spite of what we learn at school and watch on TV. They fail for three main reasons. First, the intentions of the hardcore of every movement of this kind are different that the ones they declare on. Second, the few who take a social project seriously will remain outside the hardcore group in a lonely, non-influential position. And third: the external conditions for running an experiment of this kind are such, that it's impact is limited up front to zero, often without the acting persons realize it. A brilliant movie of a brilliant filmmaker, who revolutionized the cinema in the last generation. A must for every thinking person.