description The Kingdom Overview
The Kingdom is a Danish miniseries trilogy exploring unsettling events within Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet neurosurgical ward. Staff and patients experience bizarre phenomena alongside a chorus of dishwashers with Down syndrome who comment on these occurrences. Lars von Trier created the series, characterized by its humor and distinctive visual style.
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info The Kingdom Specifications
| Country | Germany |
help The Kingdom FAQ
What hospital is The Kingdom set in?
The Kingdom, also known as Riget, is set around Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet. Lars von Trier turns the neurosurgical ward into a place where hospital bureaucracy and supernatural events collide.
How many parts of Lars von Trier's The Kingdom are there?
The original Danish series had seasons in 1994 and 1997, followed much later by The Kingdom Exodus in 2022. Together they form a strange hospital trilogy rather than a conventional long-running medical drama.
Why do dishwashers comment on the story in The Kingdom?
The dishwashers function like a chorus, observing the hospital's scandals and hauntings from below the formal hierarchy. Their commentary is one of the series' most distinctive structural devices.
Was The Kingdom remade in English?
Yes. Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, which aired in 2004, was an American adaptation inspired by Lars von Trier's Danish series.
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