The Idiots

The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves. A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of an aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form of intelligence by living together in a community of "idiots". Their main activity becomes going out into the world of "normal" people and pretending to be mentally retarded. They take advantage of this situation to create anarchy everywhere they go and try by every possible means to make people annoyed, disturbed, miserable, ridiculous, angered, and shocked. The films start as they recruit a new lost soul and introduced her to their megalomaniac leader.

Keywords

  • Adult
  • Escape to the 90's
  • Michaël R. Roskam's favorite films
  • Nordic Films
  • Sexplicit
  • Summer
  • Summertime Movies
  • madness
  • summer

Actors

  • Jens Albinus
  • Bodil Jorgensen
  • Anne Louise Hassing
  • Troels Lyby

Director

  • Lars Von Trier

Comedy


1h 52min


-12

DA


FR

Denmark
1998
The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.

The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.


A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of an aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form of intelligence by living together in a community of "idiots". Their main activity becomes going out into the world of "normal" people and pretending to be mentally retarded. They take advantage of this situation to create anarchy everywhere they go and try by every possible means to make people annoyed, disturbed, miserable, ridiculous, angered, and shocked. The films start as they recruit a new lost soul and introduced her to their megalomaniac leader.

Cast & Crew