# The Kingdom (1994)

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**Original title**: *Riget*
**Runtime**: 275 min
**Genres**: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
**Directed by**: Lars von Trier
**Written by**: Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel
**Starring**: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen, Søren Pilmark, Ghita Nørby, Jens Okking

> *A baptism of fear awaits you.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Basement morgue. Winter. A gurney creaks on its own.  
Electrical storms flicker in brain scans. Nurses watch an ambulance materialize in the parking lot, doors swinging open to static. A surgeon’s unborn child pulses behind her ribs, visible through skin.  
It’s Bergman by way of VHS-era hauntology, if the hospital itself is the patient.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, surreal

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