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''Riget'' (
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title: ''The Kingdom'') is a Danish absurdist supernatural horror miniseries trilogy created by
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, co-written by von Trier with Niels Vørsel and co-directed by von Trier with
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. Set in the
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ward of
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's
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(, nicknamed "Riget", ), each episode of the show takes place over a single day, and follows the hospital's eccentric staff and patients as they encounter bizarre and sometimes
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phenomena. The series is notable for its wry humor, its muted
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colour scheme, and the appearance of a
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of dishwashers with
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, who discuss in intimate detail the strange occurrences in the hospital. The main theme's song was written by von Trier himself. The first series of four episodes premiered from DR in November to December 1994, and was followed by a second series, ''Riget II'', which aired in November 1997. A belated third and final series of five episodes directed by von Trier and written by von Trier with Niels Vørsel, entitled ''Exodus'', began filming in 2021, was screened out of competition at the
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and at the Serial Killer festival in September 2022, and premiered in the Nordics on streaming platform
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with the first two episodes on October 9. The series premiered in select regions between November 27 and December 25 on streaming platform
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. Von Trier has credited
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's 1990 television series ''
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'' and the 1965 French miniseries ''
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'' as inspirations for the series. ''The Kingdom'' itself inspired an American series, ''
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'', developed by novelist
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; the American version aired on
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between March and July 2004, and was cancelled after a single season.


Plot synopsis

Each episode of all three series opens with the same prologue, detailing how the hospital,
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in Copenhagen, was built on the site of the "bleaching ponds", which recur in the name of the street of the hospital's official address, Blegdamsvej, although the exact significance of the reference is never explicitly discussed in the series. The show begins with the admission of a
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patient, Sigrid Drusse ( Kirsten Rolffes), who hears the sound of a girl crying in the elevator shaft. Upon investigation, Drusse discovers that the girl had died decades earlier, having been killed by her father to hide her illegitimacy. In order to put the spirit to rest, Drusse searches for the girl's body and ultimately finds it preserved in a specimen jar in the office of the hospital's professor of pathology, Professor Bondo (
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). Meanwhile,
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Stig Helmer (
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), a recent appointee from Sweden to the neurosurgery department, tries to cover up his responsibility for a botched operation which left a young girl in a
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.
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Dr. Palle Bondo (
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) attempts to convince the family of a man dying from
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to donate his liver to the hospital for Bondo's research. (In fact, Bondo wants it as a trophy, as it is the second largest hepatosarcoma ever recorded.) When denied, Bondo has the cancerous liver
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into his own body (as the patient signed an
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form), so that the cancer will become his personal property and can be kept within the hospital. Amongst other plotlines, a young medical student becomes attracted to the nurse in charge of the sleep research laboratory, a ghostly ambulance appears and disappears every night, a junior doctor runs a
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in medical supplies, and a neurosurgeon discovers that she was impregnated by a ghost and that the baby in her
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is developing abnormally rapidly. In every episode, two dishwashers (each with
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) in the cellar discuss the strange happenings at Riget, and Helmer screams his famous catchphrase: ''"Danskjävlar!"'' (subtitled as "Danish scum", but literally "Danish devils"). The third series, ''Exodus'', introduces Dr. Helmer, Jr. (
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), the neurotic son of the late Stig Helmer, and a new addition to the staff of Riget. Helmer Jr. is threatened with a lawsuit after making unwanted sexual advances to a female colleague in the hospital, has to consult an expensive son of Swedish lawyer (
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) and faces professional disgrace unless he pays compensation to the woman whose false nipples he had so admired.


Cast


Production


''Riget: Exodus'' (2022)

In December 2020, Danmarks Radio announced that a third and final season, consisting of five episodes directed by von Trier and co-written by von Trier alongside original series co-writer Niels Vørsel, would begin filming in 2021 under the title ''Riget: Exodus''. The same year, von Trier started his symptoms of
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while he was interviewed with Christian Lund of
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, where von Trier's body was shakened, before he continued working while taking his medications. Von Trier did not watch "all the old ones" before beginning work on ''Riget: Exodus'', and had tried "to get rid of the ties from the old stuff", with the focus being on the characters. Returning cast members
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,
Søren Pilmark Søren Louis Pilmark (born 16 October 1955) is a Danish actor. Pilmark has worked as a film and theatrical actor, a director, and as an author. Career Theater Pilmark graduated from the School of Acting at Aarhus Theater in 1977, where he ...
,
Peter Mygind Peter Mygind (born 28 August 1963) is a Danish actor and television personality. He has had roles in films including the World War II drama ''Flame & Citron'' as well as several TV series such as '' Borgen'', '' Unit One'', Lars Von Trier's '' Th ...
, Birgitte Raaberg, Laura Christensen and
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are joined by newcomers
Bodil Jørgensen Bodil Jørgensen (born 3 March 1961) is a Danish film actress. She has appeared in 40 films since 1992. She starred in ''The Idiots'', which was entered into the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. On 18 June 2014, Jørgensen was severely injured while s ...
,
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,
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,
Nikolaj Lie Kaas Nikolaj Lie Kaas (; born 22 May 1973) is a Danish actor whose career rose in the 1990s. Kaas graduated from the National Theater School in Denmark in 1998. He first appeared on screen in Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's film ''The Boys from St. Petri'' i ...
,
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,
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, Ida Engvoll, Asta August,
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and
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. Von Trier had a "rotten time" filming the series, as he suffered from the effects of
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during the shoot, but hoped the actors "didn't notice". In September 2022, ''Exodus'' (presented as a "five hour feature-length film") screened out of competition at the
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, alongside
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's miniseries ''
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''.


Episodes


''Riget'' (1994)


''Riget II'' (1997)


''Riget: Exodus'' (2022)


Release

The four-episode first series of ''Riget'' was aired by Danish broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR) from 24 November to 15 December 1994. The four-episode second series, ''Riget II'', aired on DR between 10-31 October 1997. The five-episode third series, ''Riget: Exodus'', premiered on streaming platform
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on 27 November 2022, with its fifth and final episode premiering on
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.


Home media

The series was edited into a five hour, two-part film, which received some theatrical exhibition, and was released on home video in America and the United Kingdom. It is available on DVD in Australia and New Zealand on
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's Directors Suite label, in the UK from Second Sight, and in the United States from
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.


Streaming

Newly restored HD editions of the first two series premiered on MUBI on 13 November and 20 November 2022, respectively; the debut of the restored series is a precursor to the premiere of ''Exodus'' on the platform on 27 November.


Reception


Critical reception

On
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, all three seasons has a
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score of 77 out of 100 from 9 reviews, indicating "generally positive reviews".


''I'' and ''II''

Film critic
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, who reviewed the two-part theatrical version, awarded it three and a half out of a possible four stars, calling it "a must-see for those who think they've seen everything". Despite being a miniseries, ''The Kingdom'' appears in the best-selling book '' 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die'', where it is called "a medical horror epic", with its supernatural elements described as being both eerie and magical.


''Exodus''

On
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website
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, the third season has an approval rating of 84% based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 6.60/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "An acquired taste for newcomers and comfort weirdness for Lars von Trier's devotees, ''The Kingdom: Exodus'' is a cheeky delicacy infused with cosmic horror that reaches biblically insane proportions." ''Exodus'' was warmly received by critics following its premiere at the Venice in September 2022, with ''
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'' calling it "over-the-top" and "fun", and the Italian Post praised the series, saying it "amuses and disturbs", and comparing it positively to ''
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''. ''The Upcoming'' gave the series 3/5, praising its "dark humour" and noting that it feels like a "tribute to Lars von Trier's career, a revisiting of his early work... filled with the wobbly handheld shots that distinguished the
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movement". Giving it 3/5 stars, ''The Guardian'' called the series "a nightmarish revue, peppered with familiar faces in brief walk-on roles", and said that it is "fun to a point and richly textured to a fault, with a plot that’s entirely driven by what has gone before".


Accolades


American adaptation

Horror novelist
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discovered the five-hour theatrical edit of ''Riget'' in a video store during production of the 1997 TV miniseries adaptation of '' The Shining'', and, finding it "both funny and scary", promptly set out to obtain the rights to the series for an American adaptation. At that time, the rights were owned by
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, who had intended to adapt the series as a two hour theatrical film. King negotiated with Columbia for the rights, ultimately exchanging them for the option to his novella "
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" (which Columbia adapted in 2004 as the feature film ''
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''). King's thirteen episode television adaptation, titled ''
Kingdom Hospital ''Kingdom Hospital'' (sometimes known as ''Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital'') is a thirteen-episode television series based on Lars von Trier's '' The Kingdom'' (Danish title: ''Riget''), developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for Ameri ...
'', broadcast between March and July 2004 on
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. Often directly adapting storylines from the original series, ''Kingdom Hospital'' was set in a hospital in
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, which was on the site of a mill built before the
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. Many character names were derived from their Danish equivalents, e.g., Sigrid Drusse became Sally Druse and Stig Helmer became Dr. Stegman. In a departure from the plot of ''Riget'', the American series introduces a new protagonist, a comatose patient, Peter Rickman, inspired by King's own experience of being hit by a minivan, and a talking
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, the spirit guide Anubis/Antubis. Although King and co-writer Richard Dooling developed an outline for a second series, ratings dropped throughout the season. ''Kingdom Hospital'' was placed on indefinite hiatus following a "major network shake-up", and was never picked up for a second series.


See also

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References


External links

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