DOGVILLE
Lars Von Trier
With: Nicole Kidman, Stellan Starsgaard, Katrin Cartlidge, Poul Bettany, Philip Baker Hall, Chloé Sevigny, Jeremy Davies, Shioban Fallon, Lauren Bacall
Production: Zentropa Entertainments
Duration: 2h57
Year of production: 2002
French release date: 21st of May 2003
Nationality: Denmark, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Germany, Finland
Written by: Lars Von Trier
French Distribution: Les Films du Losange
International sales: Trust Films
Coproducers: Slot Machine, Liberator 2, Arte France Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma, Canal+, Memfis, Trollhättan Film AB, Isabella Films International, Something Else B.V., Spillefilmskompaniet 4&½ AS, Fjeldabe Film AS, Sigma Films Ltd., Zoma Films Ltd., Pain Unlimited GmbH, Edith Film OY AB, DFI, DR.
Supported by: Eurimages, CoBo Fund, NPS, Egmont Entertainment, Film i Vest.
Format: 35 mm
DOP: Anthony Dod Mantle
Sound: Per Streit
Editor: Molly Malene Stensgaard
Costume design: Manon Rasmussen
Synopsis
In the 1930s, gunshots rang out one evening in Dogville, a small town in the Rocky Mountains. Grace, a beautiful, terrified woman, runs up a mountain path where she meets Tom, a young resident of the town. She explains to him that she is being hunted by gangsters and that her life is in danger. Encouraged by Tom, the local population agrees to hide her, in exchange for which Grace agrees to work for them.
When a wanted notice was issued against the young woman, the inhabitants of Dogville felt entitled to demand compensation, given the risk they ran in sheltering her. But poor Grace keeps a fatal secret inside her that will make them regret their actions...
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Prizes
Official competition of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival
Bodil Prize 2004: Best Danish Film