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May 20, 1998 · A group of young people pretend to be mentally retarded to challenge society's norms and create chaos. Directed by Lars von Trier, the film is part of the Dogme 95 movement and features nudity, anarchy and orgy scenes.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Lars von Trier
- 1998-05-20
The Idiots (Danish: Idioterne) is a 1998 Danish black comedy-drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It is his first film made in compliance with the Dogme 95 Manifesto, and is also known as Dogme #2.
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Karen (Bodil Jørgensen) is dining alone at a crowded restaurant when a group of people who seem to be mentally disabled enter and disrupt everyone's meal. Discerning that they are not what they ...
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- Lars Von Trier
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- Jens Albinus
Apr 28, 1998 · With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form intellect by living together in a community of "idiots". Their main activity becomes going out into the world of "normal" people and pretending to be mentally retarded.
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Karen, a grieving young woman finds compassion in Stoffer, the leader of a group of young people who attack middle-class sensibilities by pretending to be mentally disabled.
