Cast
Lars von Trier Niels Vørsel Ole Ernst
Credits
Written by: Lars von Trier
Plot
A film within a film about a plague.
Sinekatalog’s take
Lars von Trier's low-budget film-within-a-film follows filmmakers writing a plague script as a real epidemic spreads. Grainy, eerie and ambitious, it is a strange, hypnotic early work with a startling hypnosis finale.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.9 / 10 (6,766 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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