The Idiots

Name: The Idiots
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1998-05-20
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Troels Lyby, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Take a long ride on the short bus.

Idioterne (1998)

Timing: 1:50 (110 min)

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Video for the film The Idiots — Official Trailer

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Release date

1998-05-20

Country

Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden

Production

Canal+, Zentropa Entertainments, RAI, ZDF/Arte, Liberator Productions, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, VPRO, CoBo Fonds, DR TV, La Sept Cinéma, SVT Drama, Argus Film Produktie, 3 Emme Cinematografica

Genre

Drama, Comedy

Budget

$2 500 000

Box office

$7 235

Website

http://www.dogme95.dk/the_idiots/content/index.htm

Director

Lars von Trier

Actors

Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Troels Lyby, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Louise Mieritz, Henrik Prip, Luis Mesonero, Knud Romer Jørgensen, Trine Michelsen
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Scenario

Producer

Vibeke Windeløv, Erik Schut, Marianne Slot, Peter van Vogelpoel, Dag Alveberg, Svend Abrahamsen, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Dag Alveberg, Svend Abrahamsen

Camera operator

Lars von Trier

Composer

Artist

Audition

Marie Louise Hedegaard, Rie Hedegaard

Editing

Molly Malene Stensgaard
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Short description

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.

What's left behind the scenes

British film critic Mark Kermode was ejected from a screening at the Cannes Film Festival for repeatedly shouting "Il est merde!"
Within the framework of the avant-garde film movement "Dogme 95", one of its ideologues, Lars von Trier, wrote the screenplay for a film in four days.
Shooting each take often took 50 minutes.