The Idiots

Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, 1998

Film

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With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.

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Collection

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Credits

producer

Erik Schut

Marianne Slot

Peter van Vogelpoel

Vibeke Windeløv

Duration

01:57:00

Production dates
1998

On other websites

View at www.dogme95.dk

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-452

Language

Danish

Subject categories

Comedy

Drama

TMDB-Movie

452

Wikidata

Q775356

Collected

208 times

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