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Dogville

Year:

2003

Duration:

178 min | Australia:138 min | Italy:135 min

Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

IMDB rate:

Director:

Lars von Trier

Awards:

22 wins & 20 nominations

Details

Country: Denmark

Release Date: 2003-05-21

Filming Locations: Film i Väst, Nohab Industrial Estate, Trollhättan, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $88,855 (USA) (28 March 2004)

Gross: $1,530,386 (USA) (13 June 2004)

Cast

Actor

Character

Nicole Kidman

Grace Margaret Mulligan

Harriet Andersson

Gloria

Lauren Bacall

Ma Ginger

Jean-Marc Barr

The Man with the Big Hat

Paul Bettany

Tom Edison

Blair Brown

Mrs. Henson

James Caan

The Big Man

Patricia Clarkson

Vera

Jeremy Davies

Bill Henson

Ben Gazzara

Jack McKay

Philip Baker Hall

Tom Edison Sr.

Thom Hoffman

Gangster

Siobhan Fallon

Martha

John Hurt

Narrator (voice)

Zeljko Ivanek

Ben

John Randolph Jones

Gangster

Udo Kier

The Man in the Coat

Cleo King

Olivia

Miles Purinton

Jason

Bill Raymond

Mr. Henson

Chloë Sevigny

Liz Henson

Shauna Shim

June

Stellan Skarsgård

Chuck

Evelina Brinkemo

Athena

Anna Brobeck

Olympia

Tilde Lindgren

Pandora

Evelina Lundqvist

Diana

Helga Olofsson

Dahlia

Ulf Andersson

Additional Cast

Jan Coster

Additional Cast

Mattias Fredriksson

Additional Cast

Andreas Galle

Additional Cast

Barry Grant

Additional Cast

László Hágó

Additional Cast (as Lásló Hágó)

Niklas Henriksson

Additional Cast

Mikael Johansson

Additional Cast

Hans Karlsson

Additional Cast

Lee R. King

Additional Cast

Oskar Kirkbakk

Additional Cast

Ingvar Örner

Additional Cast

Erich Silva

Additional Cast

Kent Vikmo

Additional Cast

Eric Voge

Additional Cast

Ove Wolf

Additional Cast

Did you know?

Trivia

The pictures shown in the end credits are from Jacob Holdt's book/documentary American Pictures (1984)

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Paul Bettany didn't want to play Tom Edison because they were shooting it in Sweden. Then his friend Stellan Skarsgård said that Lars von Trier's shoots are so funny that "you'll miss something extraordinary if you turn the part down". After shooting half the movie Bettany asked Skarsgård when the fun will start, which Skarsgård replied: "I lied. I did it because he is amazing to work with, and you wouldn't be able to see that before you were actually here yourself. I wanted to give you a chance, and you wouldn't have shown up if I had been frank with you"

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A fifteen-minute pilot film was made in the pre-production phase to test whether the concept of chalk lines and spare scenery would work. The pilot starred Danish actors Sidse Babett Knudsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas. Dogville: The Pilot (2003) is featured on the 2nd disc of the Dogville (2003) DVD, released in November of 2003.

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Goofs

When Jack McKay admits that he is blind, he says "In Switzerland they call it the Alpengulen." It's in fact called Alpenglühen.

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Many continuity issues (hats on/off in alternating shots etc) are entirely deliberate. There are a large number of quick cuts throughout the film which serve to disorientate and confuse the viewer. The continuity in these cases is never precise and is as much a part of the final film as the script.

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When Chuck takes the scarf from Grace's neck it shows up two shots later, then is gone again in next shot.

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Quotes

Grace: What? What is it?

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Grace: All I see is a beautiful little town in the midst of magnificent mountains. A place where people have hopes and dreams even under the hardest conditions.

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Narrator: It was as if the light, previously so merciful and faint, finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a Gusberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and floor in the buildings and... in the people.

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