Riget

"The Kingdom" (1994, 1997): Known in its native Denmark as "Riget," Lars von Trier's eight-episode miniseries focused on the supernatural happenings at a Copenhagen health-care facility called Kingdom Hospital (that's the name Stephen King used for his subpar American remake).

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I have since made choices at the Brisbane Film Festival based entirely upon my fascination with Riget.

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This is the opening sequence, before the titles, of Riget.

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I also recall being somewhat confused about what was going on in Riget--a fact I would like to attribute to the late hour at which it screened.

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The charge of complacency is leveled at the medical profession throughout Riget and The Kingdom.

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I experienced a second wave of yearning to watch Riget after seeing Stephen King's much maligned adaptation of the series, Kingdom Hospital.

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Watching Riget, I was reminded of a film by Aleksandr Sokurov, Moloch, which offered a portrait of Hitler as complacent, immature, mercurial, and willfully ignorant of the consequences of his actions.

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I think the first series of Riget was far better than the second.

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Riget is definitely worth seeing, if only to glimpse the strangeness of Lars von Trier's imagination.

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In this vein, I've just finished watching both seasons of Lars von Trier's Riget The Kingdom a Danish television series from 1994 and 1997.

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