The Kingdom
Format	Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Run time	1:00 (per episode)
Creator(s)	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. ... Comedy is the use of humor in from theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction). ... Lars von Trier shooting Dogville. ... Ernst-Hugo Järegård (born December 12, 1928 in Ystad, died September 6, 1998 on Lidingö) was a Swedish actor. ... Søren Pilmark (b. ... Ghita Nørby (born January 11, 1935), aka Ghita Norby, is an immensely popular Danish actress with 117 credits to her name from 1956-2005, making her one of the most active Danish actresses ever. ... Udo Kier, promotional photo Udo Kier (born October 14, 1944 in Cologne, Germany) is a German actor. ... DRs logo. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) 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 shooting Dogville. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ...

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 a branch of medicine dealing with the nervous system and its disorders. ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is faaaabulous. ... 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 which are beyond the realm of current scientific understanding, and which may actually directly contradict conventional scientific understandings. ... Sepia tone is a type of monochrome photographic image in which the picture appears in shades of brown as opposed to greyscale as in a black-and-white image. ... Dogme 95 (in English: Dogma 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 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sepia tone is a type of monochrome photographic image in which the picture appears in shades of brown as opposed to greyscale as in a black-and-white image. ...

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(MCMXCVIII) 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. ... Old German engraving depicting a trepanation, an ancient and still performed neurosurgical procedure Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention. ... DRs logo. ... 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

Main article: Kingdom Hospital

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. 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. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for horror novels. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lewiston is Maines second-largest city, located in Androscoggin County. ... The American Civil War (1861–1865) was fought in North America within the United States of America, between twenty-three mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states that declared their independence and claimed the right of secession from the... Binomial name Orycteropus afer Pallas, 1766 The Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized mammal native to Africa The name comes from the Afrikaans for earth pig (aarde earth, vark pig), because early settlers from Europe thought it resembled a pig (although Aardvarks are not closely related to pigs). ...

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. Old German engraving depicting a trepanation, an ancient and still performed neurosurgical procedure Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

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. ... Ghita Nørby (born January 11, 1935), aka Ghita Norby, is an immensely popular Danish actress with 117 credits to her name from 1956-2005, making her one of the most active Danish actresses ever. ... Udo Kier, promotional photo Udo Kier (born October 14, 1944 in Cologne, Germany) is a German actor. ...

Episode Titles

Riget I

• Day 1: Den hvide flok / The Unheavenly Host
• Day 2: Alliancen kaider / Thy Kingdom Come
• Day 3: Et fremmed legeme / A Foreign Body
• Day 4: De levende dede / The Living Dead

Riget II

• Day 5: Mors in Tabula
• Day 6: Traekfuglene / Birds of Passage
• Day 7: Gargantua
• Day 8: Pandaemonium

External links

• Riget at the Internet Movie Database
• Riget II at the Internet Movie Database

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