The Kingdom 2

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The Kingdom 2 ★★★½ Riget II1997

In the continuation of Von Trier's hospital soap/supernatural/satire, madness runs rampant through Copenhagen's Kingdom hospital. Spiritualist Mrs. Drosse comes back to life after dying during surgery. A baby, sired by a demon, grows at a monstrous rate. Pompous Swedish neurosurgeon Helmer returns from Haiti with voodoo potions and is beseiged by his unbalanced lover and on and on it goes in its quirky, bizarre way. Swedish and Danish with subtitles. 286m/C VHS, DVD . DK Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Norby, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Jare-gard, Soren Pilmark, Holger Juul Hansen, Baard Owe, Birgitte Raaberg, Peter Mygind, Solbjorg Hojfeldt; D: Lars von Trier; W: Lars von Trier, Niels Vorsel; C: Eric Kress; M: Joachim Holbek.

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