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The Kingdom

Danish · Riget

Created by Lars von Trier

1994–2022

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

First aired
24 Nov 1994
Episode length
66 min
Also known as
Krallıq, Le royaume, Geister II, Hospital der Geister - Teil 2
Country
Denmark
Language
Danish
Screenplay
Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel
Writer
Lars von Trier
Editors
Jacob Secher Schulsinger, Jacob Thuesen, Molly Malene Stensgaard and 3 others
Executive producers
Anders Kjærhauge, Camilla Rydbacken, Christian Rank and 9 others
Producers
Bo Lindquist, Louise Vesth, Ole Reim
Elsewhere
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Seasons · 13 episodes

  • The Kingdom I

    Season 1 · 1994

    At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate.

  • The Kingdom II

    Season 2 · 1997

    The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her.

  • Exodus

    Season 3 · 2022

    Sleepwalker Karen is summoned to the Kingdom by a mysterious voice appearing to her in a nightmare, pleading for help. At the hospital, she comes across old friends of the Kingdom as well as new members of staff. To exorcise the evil spirits once and for all, Karen joins forces with the hospital porter, Bulder, and the heart surgeon, Judith – but satanic forces fight back.

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