The Kingdom

Format	Horror
Run time	1:00 (per episode)
Creator	Lars von Trier
Starring	Ernst-Hugo Järegård Kirsten Rolffes Holger Juul Hansen Søren Pilmark Ghita Nørby Baard Owe Birgitte Raaberg Udo Kier
Country	Denmark
Network	DR
Original run	1994 – 1997
No. of episodes	8

The Kingdom (Danish title: Riget) is an eight-episode Danish television mini-series, created by Lars von Trier in 1994. The mini-series has been cut together into a five-hour movie for distribution in the United Kingdom and United States. Opening logo for the TV series Riget. This work is copyrighted. ... Horror can mean several things: Horror (emotion) Horror fiction Horror film This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Lars von Trier (born April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) 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. ... Ernst-Hugo JäregÃ¥rd (born December 12, 1928 in Ystad, died September 6, 1998 on Lidingö) was a Swedish actor. ... Søren Pilmark (b. ... Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), commonly abbreviated DR, is the Danish state broadcaster. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Lars von Trier (born April 30, 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark) 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. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ...

The series is set in the neurological ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city's main hospital, which literally translates into English as "Kingdom Hospital". The show follows a number of characters, both staff and patients, as they discover a number of supernatural phenomena. The show is notable for the muted, sepia colour scheme, a sort of "Dogme"-lite shooting style (with added jump cuts), and the dishwashing kitchen staff in the basement who have Down syndrome and discuss the strange occurrences in the hospital as the plot develops. Neurology is the branch of medicine dealing with the nervous system and its disorders. ... City nickname: none Location in Denmark Area  - Total  - Water 526 km² xxx km² xx% Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density 502,204 1,116,979 954/km2 [including water] xxx/km2 [land only] Time zone Eastern: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 55°43 N 12°34 E Copenhagen (Danish: København) is... Rigshospitalet, the biggest hospital in Denmark, located in Copenhagen,    This article is a stub. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The supernatural (Latin:super- exceeding+nature) comprises forces and phenomena that cannot be perceived by natural or empirical senses, and whose understanding may be said to lie with religious, magical, or otherwise mysterious explanation —yet remains firmly outside of the realm of science. ... Sepia may refer to any of the following: The genus Sepia of cephalopod, a grouping of cuttlefish. ... Dogme 95 is a movement in filmmaking developed in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. ... In film editing, a jump cut is a cut between two similar scenes, so that the objects in them appear to jump from one position to another. ...

Most episodes end with Swedish neurologist, Stig Helmer, looking out to Sweden from the hospital roof and yelling "Danskjävlar" ("Danish scum"), and director Lars von Trier appears over the end credits of every show offering enigmatic observations about the plot. The comic elements and perceived "weirdness" in the series have led to comparisons with Twin Peaks. This article is about the television series. ...

The first series ended with numerous questions unanswered, and in 1997, the cast reassembled to produce another mini-series of four episodes, Riget II (The Kingdom II). This series continued exactly from where the first finished, and kept the trademark sepia colouring and shaky camera-work of the first series. Von Trier continued to appear over the end credits. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sepia may refer to any of the following: The genus Sepia of cephalopod, a grouping of cuttlefish. ...

This second series ended with as many questions unanswered as the first series, and a third series was planned. However, due to the death in 1998 of Ernst-Hugo Järegård (who played neurosurgeon Stig Helmer) and the subsequent deaths of Kirsten Rolffes (Mrs Drusse) and the actor who played the male dishwasher, the likelihood of a third series is now very remote. Von Trier actually wrote the third and final season, but the production was not picked up by DR. At that point five regular cast members had died and it seemed impossible to continue the series. Those lost scripts was sent to the production of Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, but it's unclear whether they used the scripts or not. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Ernst-Hugo JäregÃ¥rd (born December 12, 1928 in Ystad, died September 6, 1998 on Lidingö) was a Swedish actor. ... Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention. ... Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), commonly abbreviated DR, is the Danish state broadcaster. ... Stephen Kings Kingdom Hospital was a thirteen-episode miniseries based on Lars von Triers Riget, which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television. ...

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

(see: Kingdom Hospital) Stephen Kings Kingdom Hospital was a thirteen-episode miniseries based on Lars von Triers Riget, which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television. ...

American horror writer Stephen King developed a thirteen-episode mini-series based on Riget, under the title Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, which was broadcast in 2004. The plot retained many of the elements of Riget, transferring the location of the hospital to Lewiston, Maine, and placing it on the site of a mill built before the Civil War. Many of the characters retained their names from the Danish original (e.g. Sigrid Drusse became Eleanor Druse, Stig Helmer became Dr. Stegman). The most astonishing and inexplicable innovation in the American series was the introduction of the character of a talking aardvark in the role of spirit guide. Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any media intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a prolific American author best known for his horror novels. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lewiston is Maines second-largest city, located in Androscoggin County. ... The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession. ...

The plot of Riget

The show begins with the admission of a spiritualist patient, Sigrid Drusse, who hears the sound of a girl crying in the elevator shaft. Upon investigation, Drusse discovers that the girl 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, ultimately finding it stored in a specimen jar in the hospital's store. Spiritualism is a religion in which contact with the spirits of the dead through a medium is central. ... In semantics, the patient is the passive part of a process. ... A modern elevator has buttons to allow passengers to select the desired floor. ...

Meanwhile, neurosurgeon Stig Helmer, a recent apointee to the neurology department from Sweden, attempts to cover up his blame for a botched operation which left a young girl in a vegetative state. Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Pathologist Dr Bondo, attempts to convince the family of a man dying from liver cancer to donate his liver to the hospital for research. When his request is denied, Bondo has the cancerous liver transplanted into his own body, as the patient had signed an organ donor card, so that the cancer would become his own property and could be kept within the hospital. Pathology (in ancient Greek pathos = feeling, pain, suffering and logos = discourse or treatise, i. ... Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, also called hepatoma) is a primary malignancy (cancer) of the liver. ... An organ transplant is the transplantation of an organ (or part of one) from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipients damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor. ... Organ donation is the removal of specific tissues of the human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting them into other persons. ...

Amongst other plotlines, a young neurosurgery student becomes attracted to the nurse in charge of the sleep research laboratory, and a neurologist discovers that she was impregnated by a ghost and that her baby is developing abnormally rapidly.

The cast of Riget and Riget II

Ernst-Hugo Järegård - Stig Helmer
Kirsten Rolffes - Sigrid Drusse
Holger Juul Hansen - Moesgaard
Søren Pilmark - Krogshøj
Ghita Nørby - Rigmor
Baard Owe - Bondo
Birgitte Raaberg - Judith
Udo Kier - Åge Krüger / Little Brother Ernst-Hugo JäregÃ¥rd (born December 12, 1928 in Ystad, died September 6, 1998 on Lidingö) was a Swedish actor. ... Søren Pilmark (b. ...