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Dancer in the Dark is an award-winning musical film drama released in 2000. It was directed by Lars von Trier and stars Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Vladica Kostic, Cara Seymour and Peter Stormare. The soundtrack for the film, released as the album Selmasongs, was created entirely by Björk. Movie poster from Dancer in the Dark (2000). ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Catherine Deneuve (French IPA: ), (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. ... For other persons named David Morse, see David Morse (disambiguation). ... Cara Seymour is an English actress of both stage and screen. ... (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish film and television actor. ... BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Robby MÃ¼ller (born April 4, 1940, in Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles), sometimes credited as Robby Muller, is a cinematographer whose name is most often associated with film director Wim Wenders. ... Fine Line Features was the speciality films division of New Line Cinema. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (138th in leap years). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cannes Film Festival logo. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Denmark. ... December 8 is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Idiots (Danish: Idioterne) is a 1998 Danish film directed by Lars von Trier. ... The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Catherine Deneuve (French IPA: ), (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. ... For other persons named David Morse, see David Morse (disambiguation). ... Cara Seymour is an English actress of both stage and screen. ... (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish film and television actor. ... Selmasongs is an album released in September of 2000 by Icelandic singer and actress BjÃ¶rk as a soundtrack to the film Dancer in the Dark, in which she also starred as the main character, Selma. ...

Dancer in the Dark is the third film in von Trier's 'Golden Heart Trilogy'; the previous two films were Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998). The film was an international co-production between companies based in several countries: Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway. It was shot with a hand held camera, and was somewhat inspired by a Dogme 95 look. Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, which tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries oil-man Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1996. ... The Idiots (Danish: Idioterne) is a 1998 Danish film directed by Lars von Trier. ... // February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ... Production company refers to a company responsible for the development and physical production of a film or television program. ... Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy - Queen Beatrix - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War - Declared July 26, 1581 - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain... Dogme 95 (in English: Dogma 95) is an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, and SÃ¸ren Kragh-Jacobsen. ...

Dancer in the Dark premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to standing ovations and controversy and was awarded the Palme d'Or, along with the Best Actress award for Björk. The song "I've Seen It All", with Thom Yorke, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. Cannes Film Festival logo. ... Palme dOr The Palme dOr (Golden Palm) is the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers. ...

Synopsis

The film is set in Washington state in 1964 and focuses on Selma Ježková (Björk), a Czech immigrant who has moved to the United States with her son, Gene Ježek (Kostic). They live a life of poverty as Selma works at a factory with her good friend Kathy, who she nicknames Cvalda (Deneuve). She rents a trailer home on the property of town policeman Bill Houston (Morse) and his wife Linda Houston (Seymour). She is also pursued by the shy but persistent Jeff (Stormare) who also works at the factory. Official language(s) English Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area Ranked 18th - Total 71,342 sq mi (184,827 kmÂ²) - Width 240 miles (385 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 6. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For the band, see The Police. ...

What no one in Selma's life knows is that she has a hereditary degenerative disease which is gradually causing her to go blind. She has been saving up every penny that she makes (in a tin can in her kitchen) to pay for an operation which will prevent her young son from suffering the same fate. A degenerative disease is a disease in which the function or structure of the affected tissues or organs will progressively deteriorate over time, whether due to normal bodily wear or lifestyle choices such as exercise or eating habits. ... Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors. ...

To escape the misery of her daily life Selma accompanies Cvalda to the local cinema where together they watch fabulous Hollywood musicals (or more accurately, Selma listens as Cvalda describes them to her (to the aggravation of the other theater patrons) or acts out the dance steps upon Selma's hand using her fingers.) In her day-to-day life, when things are too boring or upsetting, Selma slips into daydreams or perhaps a trance-like state where she imagines the ordinary circumstances and individuals around her have erupted into elaborate musical theater numbers. These songs, as do many of Björk's songs, use some sort of real life noise (from factory machines buzzing to the sound of a flag rapping against a flag pole in the wind) as an underlying rhythm. ... A daydream is a fantasy that a person has while awake, often about spontaneous and fanciful thoughts not connected to the persons immediate situation. ... An altered state of consciousness is any state which is significantly different from a normative waking beta wave state. ... Rhythm (Greek = flow, or in Modern Greek, style) is the variation of the length and accentuation of a series of sounds or other events. ...

Unfortunately, Selma slips into one such trance while working at the factory. When her machine breaks she is fired from her job. Soon Jeff and Cvalda begin to realize that Selma can barely see at all. Additionally, Bill reveals to Selma that his materialistic wife, Linda, has exhausted all of his savings and asks Selma for a loan, which she declines to give. He regrets telling Selma his secret, so to comfort Bill, Selma reveals her secret blindness, hoping that together they can share one another's secret. Bill then hides in the corner of Selma's home, knowing she can't see him, and watches as she puts some money in her kitchen tin. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

The next day when Selma comes home she finds the tin is empty. She goes next door to report the theft to Bill and Linda only to hear Linda discussing how Bill has brought home their safe deposit box to count their savings. She additionally reveals that Bill has "confessed" his affair with Selma, and that Selma must move out immediately. Knowing that Bill was broke and that the money he is counting must be hers, she confronts him and attempts to take the money back. He draws a gun on her and in a struggle he is wounded. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ... Everyday instance of theft: the bike which fits on this wheel has disappeared. ... Safe deposit boxes inside a Swiss bank. ... An affair is often a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an inappropriate romantic relationship. ... A gun is a common name given to an object that fires high-velocity projectiles. ...

Linda discovers the two of them and, assuming that Selma is attempting to steal the money, runs off to tell the police. Bill begs Selma to take his life, and she shoots at him several times, but in her state of hysterics, manages to only maim Bill further. In the end she performs a coup de grâce with the safe deposit box. (In one of the scenes, Selma slips into a trance and imagines that Bill's corpse stands up and slow dances with her, urging her to run to freedom.) She does, and takes the money to the Institute for the Blind to pay for her son's operation before the police can take it from her. Look up coup de grÃ¢ce in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Selma is caught and eventually put on trial. It is here that she is pegged as a Communist sympathizer and murderess. Although she tells as much truth about the situation as she can, she refuses to reveal Bill's secret, saying that she had promised not to. Additionally, when her claim that the reason she didn't have any money was because she had been sending it to her father in Czechoslovakia is proven false, she is convicted and given the death penalty. This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...

Cvalda and Jeff eventually put the pieces of the puzzle together and get back Selma's money, using it instead to pay for a trial lawyer who can free her. Selma becomes furious and refuses the lawyer, opting instead to deprive her son of his mother rather than letting him go blind. In the end Selma is hanged to death. For information on the type of fish called Lawyer, see the article on Burbot. ... Hanging to Music. ...

Style

Much of the film has a similar look to von Trier's earlier Dogme 95-influenced films: it is filmed on low-end, hand-held digital cameras to create a documentary-style appearance. It is not a true Dogme 95 film, however, because the Dogme rules stipulate that guns and non-diegetic music are not permitted. Dogme 95 (in English: Dogma 95) is an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, and SÃ¸ren Kragh-Jacobsen. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... According to Gerald Prince in A Dictionary of Narratology, diegesis is (1) The (fictional) world in which the situations and events narrated occur; (2) Telling, recounting, as opposed to showing, enacting. ...

Von Trier differentiates the musical sequences from the rest of the film by using static cameras and by brightening the colours.

Production

The film's title derives from a phrase in Joni Mitchell's song "My Old Man" on the album Blue (1971): My old man/He's a singer in the park/He's a walker in the rain/He's a dancer in the dark. Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a noted Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. ... Blue is the 1971 album of Canadian-born singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. ... See also: 1970 in music, other events of 1971, 1972 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // February 8 - Bob Dylans hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ...

Actress Björk, who is known primarily as a contemporary composer, had rarely acted before, and has described the process of making this film as so emotionally taxing that she would not appear in any film ever again^[1]^[2] (although in 2005, she appeared in Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9). She had disagreements with von Trier over the content of the film, wanting the ending to be more uplifting.^{[citation needed]} Deneuve and others have described her performance as feeling rather than acting.^{[citation needed]} BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance art. ... Drawing Restraint 9 is an art film by American artist Matthew Barney, dealing with the relationship between creativity and self-imposed resistance. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. ...

The musical sequences were filmed simultaneously with over 100 digital cameras so that multiple angles of the performance could be captured and cut together later, thus shortening the filming schedule. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Björk lies down on a stack of birch logs during the "Scatterheart" sequence. In Icelandic and Swedish, "Björk" means "birch". Lars von Trier thought it would be fun to put it in the film.^{[citation needed]} Species Many species; see text and classification Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. ...

A Swedish locomotive (owned by TÅGAB, a short line) was painted in the American Great Northern scheme for the movie, and not repainted afterward. [1] Great Western Railway No. ... A Great Northern EMD F7 Locomotive. ...

Critical responses

Reaction to 'Dancer in the Dark was extremely mixed; for example, on The Movie Show, Margaret Pomeranz gave it 5 stars while David Stratton gave it 0 - the only time this has ever happened. The mixed response to the film is reflected in the film's official website, which posts both positive and negative reviews on its main page.^[3] This article is about the Australian television program. ... Margaret Pomeranz is an Australian film critic and television personality. ... David Stratton (born 1939 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England ) is an Australian film critic and television personality. ...

The film was praised for its stylistic innovations: Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times stated that "It smashes down the walls of habit that surround so many movies. It returns to the wellsprings. It is a bold, reckless gesture."^[4] and Edward Guthmann from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote "It's great to see a movie so courageous and affecting, so committed to its own differentness."^[5] Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... Chicago Sun-Times The Chicago Sun-Times is an American newspaper publishing out of Chicago, Illinois. ... Todays San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. ...

However, criticism was directed at its tear-jerking storyline: Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post described the film as "meretricious fakery" and called it "so unrelenting in its manipulative sentimentality that, if it had been made by an American and shot in a more conventional manner, it would be seen as a bad joke."^[6] The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ...

Awards

Dancer in the Dark premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to standing ovations and controversy^{[citation needed]} and was awarded the Palme d'Or, along with the Best Actress award for Björk. The song "I've Seen It All" was nominated for an Oscar for best song, at the performance of which Björk wore her famous swan dress. Cannes Film Festival logo. ... Palme dOr The Palme dOr (Golden Palm) is the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Species 6-7 living, see text. ...

Nominated

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Won

BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Cannes Film Festival logo. ... BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Cannes Film Festival logo. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... The Edda Awards are the national film awards in Iceland. ... BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... The European Movie Awards are the most prestigious paneuropean movie awards. ... BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... The European Movie Awards are the most prestigious paneuropean movie awards. ... The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spains main national film awards. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents) Awards and presented winners with Plexiglas pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... The 2005 Prestige Awards Poster The Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures is a Virginia Beach based group that promotes film in the regional community. ... The 2005 Prestige Awards Poster The Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures is a Virginia Beach based group that promotes film in the regional community. ... The 2005 Prestige Awards Poster The Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures is a Virginia Beach based group that promotes film in the regional community. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ...

Cast

BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Catherine Deneuve (French IPA: ), (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. ... For other persons named David Morse, see David Morse (disambiguation). ... (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish film and television actor. ... Joel Grey (born Joel Katz on April 11, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stage and screen actor, who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California in 1950. ... Cara Seymour is an English actress of both stage and screen. ... Jean-Marc Barr was born on September 27, 1960 in Bitburg, in Germany. ... Siobhan Fallon (born May 13, 1961) is an American actress. ... Å½eljko Ivanek (born August 15, 1957) is a television, film, and stage actor. ... Udo Kier, promotional photo Udo Kier (born Udo Kierspe, October 14, 1944 in Cologne, Germany) is a German actor. ...

Music

BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Mark Bell is a musician and producer of electronic house music who, as well as being a member of the pioneering intelligent dance music group LFO on Warp Records, has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as BjÃ¶rk and Depeche Mode. ... BjÃ¶rk GuÃ°mundsdÃ³ttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in ReykjavÃk, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... Catherine Deneuve (French IPA: ), (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. ... Siobhan Fallon (born May 13, 1961) is an American actress. ... For other persons named David Morse, see David Morse (disambiguation). ... Cara Seymour is an English actress of both stage and screen. ... (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish film and television actor. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... SJÃ“N Photo:Hordur Sveinsson SjÃ³n is the pen name of SigurjÃ³n Birgir SigurÃ°sson (born August 27, 1962). ... For more on his work with his two partners, see Rodgers and Hart and Rodgers and Hammerstein. ...

References in other media

The Finnish band The Rasmus included a song called Dancer in the Dark in the special edition of their 2005 album Hide from the Sun. The song is about the movie. Dancer in the Dark is an epic song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus. ... The Rasmus are a Finnish rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki, Finland while the band members were still in high school. ... Dancer in the Dark is an epic song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus. ... Reefer Madness was issued in a Special Addiction as a reference to the cult films ironic appeal. ... Hide from the Sun is the sixth studio album by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, originally released in mainland Europe, the UK, Scandinavia and Japan on September 12, 2005. ...

References

Notes

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Movies by Lars von Trier

The Element of Crime • Epidemic • Europa • The Kingdom • Breaking the Waves • The Idiots (Dogme 95) • Dancer in the Dark • Dogville • Manderlay • The Boss of It All • Wasington The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Lars von Trier (born Lars Trier, April 30, 1956) is a Danish film director closely associated with the Dogme95 collective, calling for a return to plausible stories in filmmaking and a move away from artifice and towards technical minimalism. ... The Element of Crime (Danish: Forbrydelsens element) is the first feature film directed by noted Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. ... Epidemic is a 1987 film directed by Lars von Trier. ... Zentropa also known as Europa is the title of Lars von Triers third theatrical feature film, released in 1991. ... The Kingdom (Danish title: Riget) is an eight-episode Danish television mini-series, created by Lars von Trier in 1994. ... Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, which tells the story of Bess McNeill, who marries oil-man Jan, despite the apprehensions of her community and Calvinist church. ... The Idiots (Danish: Idioterne) is a 1998 Danish film directed by Lars von Trier. ... Dogme 95 (in English: Dogma 95) is an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, and SÃ¸ren Kragh-Jacobsen. ... Dogville is a 2003 movie written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd and James Caan, among others. ... For the fictional estate, see Manderley; for the Burmese city, see Mandalay. ... The Boss of it All (Danish: DirektÃ¸ren for det Hele) is a 2006 Danish comedy film directed by Lars von Trier. ... Washington is the final film in Lars von Triers USA - Land of Opportunities trilogy. ...

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