Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.

Director:

Lars von Trier

Writer:

Lars von Trier

Stars:

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin

14 wins & 30 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Charlotte Gainsbourg	...	Joe
Stellan Skarsgård	...	Seligman
Stacy Martin	...	Young Joe
Shia LaBeouf	...	Jerôme
Christian Slater	...	Joe's Father
Uma Thurman	...	Mrs. H
Sophie Kennedy Clark	...	B
Connie Nielsen	...	Joe's Mother
Ronja Rissmann	...	Joe - 2 Years
Maja Arsovic	...	Joe - 7 years
Sofie Kasten	...	B - 7 Years
Ananya Berg	...	Joe - 10 Years
Anders Hove	...	Odin
James Northcote	...	Young Lad 1 on Train
Charlie Hawkins	...	Young Lad 2 on Train

Storyline

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

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Plot Keywords:

unsimulated sex | anal sex | cunnilingus | sex scene | female nudity | 

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Taglines:

Forget About Love

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Shia LaBeouf was asked to send pictures of his penis in order to obtain his role. He subsequently decided to send in personal tapes of him and his girlfriend having sex in order to convince Lars von Trier to cast him.

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Goofs

The train carriage where the two girls pick up strangers is German, but the ticket collector is wearing a British Railways uniform from the 1970s.

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Quotes

Seligman: I'm Seligman.
Joe: What a fucking ridiculous name.

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Crazy Credits

Near the very end of the credits there is this disclaimer: "None of the professional actors had penetrative sexual intercourse and all such scenes where [sic] performed by body doubles."

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Alternate Versions

The director's cut adds roughly 28 minutes of footage, expanding some of the subplots.

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Connections

References Breaking the Waves (1996)

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Soundtracks

Führe mich
Performed by Rammstein
Written by Oliver Riedel, Christoph Schneider (as Christoph Doom Schneider), Richard Kruspe (as Richard Z Kruspe), Paul Landers, Till Lindemann and Flake Lorenz (as Doktor Christian Lorenz)

User Reviews

Disgusting movie

This is a disgusting movie that's only purpose was to fulfill the directors misguided, gross, disgusting fantasies. Not only does it abuse women, but it shows horrible things with no consequences. Not only do people get defiled, raped, beaten, and peed on but has no sympathetic characters. Why is it that in his movies he almost always has his females characters hurt themselves??? It's like he hates women- and people actually like this gross disturbing sadism??? Feel ashamed of all the actors/actresses who are in this- obviously there have no morales and will sell their soul to the devil. He should be locked up in jail instead of celebrated- disgusting how people actually liked this...🤢🤢🤢

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

Denmark Germany Belgium UK France Sweden USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 March 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Filming Locations:

Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$158,369, 23 March 2014

Gross USA:

$785,896

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$13,545,832

Company Credits

Production Co:

Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Köln, Heimatfilm

Technical Specs

Runtime:

117 min 148 min (director's cut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Color:

Color Black and White (chapter 4 sequence)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1