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Dancer in the Dark
Lars von Trier

Dancer in the Dark

  • Drama
  • Crime

In a world of shadows, she found the light of life.

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RELEASE

2000-09-01

BUGET

$12.5M

LENGTH

140 min

Description

A Czech immigrant in 1960s America escapes into musicals while working long hours in poverty. Struggling with hereditary blindness, she is determined to secure her son’s future and will sacrifice everything to ensure he receives the operation that could spare him from her fate.

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FrontrunnerParis

@FrontrunnerParis

Dazzling Björk in this indictment against the death sentence, in tight close-ups. This film is a UFO, musical without being.