Name: The Kingdom
Released: 1994-11-24T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Nicolas Bro, Søren Pilmark, Ghita Nørby

TV Show · Drama · Fantasy

The Kingdom series inaugurates Lars von Trier’s magnum opus, a cult TV phenomenon three decades in the making. Described by the director as “a ghost story spiced up with a few soap-like elements,” the series is Denmark’s answer to Twin Peaks: a compulsively entertaining supernatural mystery, charged with potent melodrama and populated with a recurring cast of endearing eccentrics.

1994 · 1h 3m

Starring Nicolas Bro, Søren Pilmark, Ghita Nørby

Director Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred

EPISODE 1

S1

Mrs Drusse, a hypochondriac psychic gets herself admitted to the Kingdom because she believes the hospital is haunted. Meanwhile, Dr Helmer, a Dane-hating Swede under investigation for malpractice joins the hospital's secret brethren.

1h 1m
EPISODE 2

S1

Mrs Drusse continues her investigation, Krogshøj steals the severed head from Mogge and uses it to blackmail him, while Bondo is at his wits' end when a patient's relative refuses to hand over his liver infected with a rare cancer.

1h 5m
EPISODE 3

S1

Dr Helmer decides to steal the incriminating report but unbeknownst to him, Krogshøj has the same plan, Bondo wants to transplant the cancerous liver into himself, and Mrs Drusse finds out Mary didn't die of TB as reported.

1h 1m
EPISODE 4

S1

Helmer goes to Haiti which angers his gun-wielding girlfriend, Judith may be pregnant with a ghost, Mrs Drusse reburies Mary's remains but her troubles are only just beginning, and Operation Morning Breeze turns into a farcical disaster.

1h 8m
EPISODE 1

S2

Helmer returns from Haiti with the zombie poison but has trouble administering it. Mrs Drusse is back in the Kingdom after being struck by a van. Judith has to learn to love her deformed son who is the reincarnation of Age Krüger.

1h
EPISODE 2

S2

Dr. Helmer is back from Haiti with his zombie-flying serum, Mrs. Drusse has a new spiritual mystery to solve, and Judith has just given birth to a deformed baby with a fully formed adult head and a rapidly growing body.

1h 5m