7.059 minSeason 3 • Episode 5
LatestKaren, Krogen and Bulder are fighting against the clock. The time has come to clean The Kingdom of all evil spirits once and for all, but much can still go wrong.
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
Direction
Von Trier's Dogme 95 chaos: handheld, grainy, gloriously unhinged.
Production
Shot in real disused hospital—no sets, just authentic dread.
Writing
Medical soap meets cosmic horror; every character magnificently awful.
Creator
Lars von Trier
Søren Pilmark
Jørgen Krogshøj
Ghita Nørby
Rigmor Mortensen
Birgitte Raaberg
Judith Petersen
Peter Mygind
Morten 'Mogge' Moesgaard
Solbjørg Højfeldt
Camilla
Udo Kier
Age Krüger / Storebror / Lillebror
Birthe Neumann
Fru Svendsen
Henning Jensen
Bob
Bodil Jørgensen
Karen Svensson
Mikael Persbrandt
Helmer Jr.
Lars Mikkelsen
Pontopidan
Nicolas Bro
Balder
Tuva Novotny
Anna
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Filip Naver
Ida Engvoll
Kalle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire series was filmed at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, a working hospital where crew reportedly experienced their own unexplained phenomena.
The Kingdom directly inspired Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, but von Trier's original remains untouchably weirder and more politically savage.
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