Dogville
“A quiet little town not far from here.”
Director
Lars von Trier
Screenplay
Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier's audacious experiment casts Nicole Kidman as a woman fleeing gangsters who takes refuge in a small Depression-era Colorado town, agreeing to work off her welcome — until the townspeople's generosity curdles into exploitation and cruelty. Staged almost entirely on a bare soundstage with chalk-outline sets standing in for houses and streets, the film uses its Brechtian theatricality to strip small-town American self-mythology down to something starker and more damning. Divisive and provocative on release, it's regarded as one of von Trier's most formally radical and morally uncompromising works.
Release
May 21, 2003
Budget
$10M
Country
Denmark
Revenue
$17M
Cast
Nicole Kidman
Grace Margaret Mulligan
Paul Bettany
Tom Edison
Stellan Skarsgård
Chuck
Philip Baker Hall
Tom Edison Sr.
Patricia Clarkson
Vera
Ben Gazzara
Jack McKay
Chloë Sevigny
Liz Henson
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Martha
James Caan
The Big Man
Blair Brown
Mrs. Henson
Željko Ivanek
Ben
Jeremy Davies
Bill Henson
Lauren Bacall
Ma Ginger
Harriet Andersson
Gloria
Thom Hoffman
Gangster
Jean-Marc Barr
The Man with the Big Hat
John Randolph Jones
Gangster
Udo Kier
The Man in the Coat
Cleo King
Olivia
Bill Raymond
Mr. Henson
Shauna Shim
June
Ove Wolf
Additional Cast
Reviews
TMDB
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Dogville
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