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- BFI identifier509773
- Date2000 (Copyright)
- Production countryDenmark, France, Sweden, Italy, Germany
- Production companyZentropa Entertainments4 ApS, France 3 Cinéma, Arte France Cinéma, Trust Film Svenska AB, Liberator Productions, Pain Unlimited GmbH, Film i Väst, Cinematograph A/S, What Else?, Icelandic Film Corporation, Blind Spot Pictures, DR - Danmarks Radio, SVT Kanal 1 Drama, ARTE, WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Angel Films A/S, Canal+, FilmFour, Fine Line Features, Filmek AB, Constantin Film, Lantia Cinematografica e Audiovisi, TV1000, VPRO, YLE TV1, Det Danske Filminstitut, Eurimages Conseil de l'Europe, Svenska Filminstitutet, Det Norske Filminstituttet, Kvikmyndasjódur Íslands, Suomen Elokuvasäätiö
- SynopsisMusical drama. A Czech woman, Selma, who is almost blind herself, works hard to save money for her son's eye operation. She works at a small pressing plant in the United States, and counts among her friends another immigrant, Kathy, and her landlord, Bill. When Bill tells her he is almost penniless due to his wife's extravagances, Selma discloses her secret: she has saved around $2 000 for her son's operation. When her savings then mysteriously disappear, she confronts Bill, who reveals he has a gun, and there is a struggle. Bill dies as a result, and Selma is put on trial for murder. (Synopsis)
- Work history+countries: Norway, Netherlands, Iceland, Finland, GB, USA
- Genre
- CreditsDirector: Lars von Trier
©/Production Company: Zentropa Entertainments4 ApS
©/Production Company: France 3 Cinéma
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Title
DANCER IN THE DARK (Original)
TAPS (Working)
DANCERS IN THE DARK (Working)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/34DE-5887-2310-D7EA-CF04-ACategory
Fiction- Collections
- Scripts / Documents
- Posters / Designs
- StillsPhotograph: digital - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-9x9
Photograph: digital - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-9x8
Photograph: digital - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-9x7
Photograph: print - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-o25
Photograph: print - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00n-o24
view all - ArticlesCreative Screenwriting v8 n1 Jan/Feb 2001 - InterviewSight and Sound v10 n7 July 2000 - Short ArticleScreen International n1260 26 May 2000 - Credits, Review, SynopsisSight and Sound v10 n10 October 2000 - Credits, Review, Synopsisview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes May 2013
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- DANCER IN THE DARK
Work - 509773 - 2000 (Copyright)
Denmark - Film - Fiction
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