Riget
Lars von Trier
The Royal Hospital in Copenhagen is the stage for a series of strange, unexplained events... Dr Moesgaard, the head of the neurosurgery department is out of his depth, There is the Swedish neurosurgeon Stig G. Helmer, who messed up an operation on Mona, Professor Bondo, who is obsessed with his studies into cancer, Dr Krogshoj who is worried about Judith, who is pregnant and ballooning frighteningly... and Mrs Drusse, who is trying to solve the mystery around the death of little Mary, who haunts the hospital's lift...
Screenplay : Lars Von Trier, Niels Vørsel
Image : Erik Kress, Henrik Harpelund
Editing : Jacob Thuesen, Molly Malene Stensgaard
Decors : Jette Lehman, Hans Chr
Music : Joachim Holbek
"I'd wanted to make a ghost film for a long time. Not a horror film, but a ghost film. I've always loved juxtapositions of image with translucent characters coming through the screen. There's no need for any other special effects, those created during shooting are more than enough. I remembered a French TV series I had seen when I was a child: Bélphégor, a terrifying blood-chilling story. This must be my first memory of a TV series. Locating a horror story in a massive museum full of labyrinths is ingenious; the location lends itself to the story. I had to find the same sort of setting. The idea of a hospital came to me: there was a multitude of rooms, corridors and underground galleries. That's how I found the Royal Hospital in Copenhagen" (L. Von Trier).