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Dancer in the Dark

Year:

2000

Duration:

140 min

Genres:

Crime | Drama | Musical

IMDB rate:

Director:

Lars von Trier

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 35 wins & 39 nominations

Details

Country: Spain

Release Date: 2000-10-06

Filming Locations: Arlington, Washington, USA

Earnings

Budget: $12,800,000

Opening Weekend: $91,612 (USA) (24 September 2000)

Gross: $4,184,036 (USA) (22 December 2000)

Cast

Actor

Character

Björk

Dancer in the Dark

Catherine Deneuve

Kathy

David Morse

Bill Houston

Peter Stormare

Jeff

Joel Grey

Oldrich Novy

Cara Seymour

Linda Houston

Vladica Kostic

Gene Jezkova

Jean-Marc Barr

Norman

Vincent Paterson

Samuel

Siobhan Fallon

Brenda

Zeljko Ivanek

District Attorney

Udo Kier

Dr. Porkorny

Jens Albinus

Morty

Reathel Bean

Judge

Mette Berggreen

Receptionist

Lars Michael Dinesen

Defense Attorney / Dancer

Katrine Falkenberg

Suzan / Dancer

Michael Flessas

Angry Man

John Randolph Jones

Detective

Noah Lazarus

Officer of the Court / Dancer

Sheldon Litt

Visitor

Andrew Lucre

Clerk of Court / Dancer

John Martinus

Chairman

Luke Reilly

New Defense Council

T.J. Rizzo

Boris / Dancer (as TJ Rizzo)

Stellan Skarsgård

Doctor

Sean-Michael Smith

Person in Doorway (as Sean Michael Smith)

Paprika Steen

Woman on Night Shift

Eric Voge

Officer

Nick Wolf

Man with Hood

Timm Zimmermann

Guard / Dancer

Al Agami

Dancer

Alex Mouro

Dancer

Alexander Arli

Dancer

Allan Gyldenkærne

Dancer

Ami Eklöf-Annell

Dancer

Ana Christine Broström

Dancer

Anders Tärneberg

Dancer

Anders Thorhauge

Dancer

Anders-Peter Torsleff Hansen

Dancer

Ann Crosset

Dancer

Anna David

Dancer

Anna Norberg

Dancer

Anna Rosenberg

Dancer

Annette Lindholm

Dancer

Anthony Ajoise Olufemi Jacob

Dancer

Birgitte Skands

Dancer

Bjorn Ahlander

Dancer

Bo Westerholm

Dancer

Bobo Eriksson

Dancer

Britt Bendixen

Dancer

Carl Johan De Neergaard

Dancer

Carol Linda Nielsen

Dancer

Claus Berenhard

Dancer

Cristian Valle

Dancer

Diana G.L. Watson

Dancer

Ed Hickok

Dancer

Edvin Karsson

Dancer

Eli Stalhand

Dancer

Elin Johansson

Dancer

Emilie Bendz

Dancer

Erik Dammann

Dancer

Erik Drugge

Dancer

Fredrik Börgesson

Dancer

Frederik Mondrup

Dancer

Marianne Bengtsson

Dancer

Troels Asmussen

Dancer (uncredited)

Caroline Sascha Cogez

Prison Guard - Serving Selma Jezkova's last meal (uncredited)

Rikke Lylloff

Dancer (unconfirmed) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

During the Scatterheart-sequence, Selma (Björk) lies down on a stack of birch logs. In Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish, "Björk" means "birch". Lars von Trier said he thought it would be fun to put in the movie.

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While known among DV filmmakers as being filmed with anamorphic lenses to obtain a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, this is not entirely true; anamorphic lenses were only used on the infamous "100 cameras" for the musical numbers. The rest of the film (along with close-ups in the musical numbers) was shot with a larger camera in 16x9, which was then cropped to the final 2.35:1 aspect ratio.

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Although this film is advertised as a musical, the first musical number doesn't appear until 40 minutes into the film.

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Goofs

Surname of Selma's son should be a Jezek, not Jezková.

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When Bill tells Selma he has no money, Selma's hair repeatedly switches from being over her ears, to being tucked behind them.

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When Selma knocks on the door and her foreman answers it the door opens from the wrong direction and they are clearly not in the same factory building.

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Quotes

Jeff: You can't see, can you?

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Selma: [talking about musical films] You know when the camera goes really big and it comes up out of the roof, and you just know that it's gonna end? I hate that.

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Selma: I listen to my heart.

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