Film
Drama
Comedy

Classics: The Idiots

What's on

Country

Denemarken

Year

1998

Language

Danish spoken, Dutch subtitles

Actors

Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Troels Lyby, Henrik Prip

Director

Lars von Trier

Duration

117 min

Uncompromising provocation and a Dogma 95 key work by Lars von Trier. In a neat Danish suburb, a group of young people gather in a commune. Their mission? To disrupt the facade of bourgeois society by ‘spasming’ - pretending to be mentally challenged people in public.

What begins as a contrarian performance act derails into a wry experiment that exposes the limits of freedom, hypocrisy and peer pressure. Von Trier films raw, handheld, without artificial light or musical score - dragging you into a world balancing between liberation and moral bankruptcy with uncomfortable intensity. The Idiots challenges not only the viewer, but also the medium of film itself.

Fans of challenging cinema will enjoy this controversial classic full of theatrical madness. The Idiots is not a film you watch - it is a film that happens to you.