Gli Idioti
Paese d'origine: Denmark France Italy Netherlands
Versioni alternative: - To avoid an NC-17 rating, the U.S. distributor used black bars to cover all shots of male genitals and penetration during the orgy scene. - When the film was screened on FilmFour in the UK, British censors required that all male genitals and penetration be optically pixellated. - The Australian version is missing about two seconds of sexual penetration footage, during the orgy scene. This was removed to avoid an 'X' rating, thus ensuring a more marketable 'R' rating.
Genere: Comedy Drama
Lingue: Danish
Plot: 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. In un'epoca di folli, forse ci salveranno....gli IDIOTI ! ? ! E questo sembra essere il punto di partenza dell'ultimo film di Lars von Trier. Il regista sembra volerci ricordare, attraverso la massima libertà espressiva possibile, la drammaticità dell'esistenza, il dolore, le speranze infrante. Karen è una donna sola e dalla espressione malinconica. Dopo aver vagato per la città, si unisce ad un gruppo di ragazzi conosciuti in un ristorante che, simulando una falsa idiozia, cercano di mettere in atto una battaglia contro le autentiche follie dell'ipocrisia e dell'intolleranza verso i 'diversi'. Il gruppo si riunisce in una casa di campagna e decide di uscire all'esterno per provare le loro esperienze. Quindi portano le loro provocazioni, oltre che al ristorante, in un pub, in piscina, durante un pic-nic in un prato, nell'agenzia dove lavora Axel. Alla fine anche Karen decide di uscire allo scoperto e, a casa col marito, inizia a fare...l'idiota! Ma l'uomo reagisce duramente e lei decide di abbandonarlo per sempre e di seguire il gruppo.
Visti censura internazionale: Argentina:18 Sweden:15 Spain:18 Ireland:(Banned) Switzerland:18 Chile:18 Hong Kong:III USA:R UK:18 Germany:12 New Zealand:R18 Switzerland:18 France:-16 Norway:18 Australia:R Finland:K-16 Portugal:M/16 Italy:T
Date di uscita internazionali:
| Argentina:16 September 1999 |
| Australia:26 August 1999 |
| Belgium:20 May 1998 |
| Estonia:1 January 1999 |
| Finland:26 February 1999 |
| Germany:22 April 1999 |
| Hong Kong:15 July 1999 |
| Hungary:30 November 2000 |
| Israel:29 November 1998 |
| Italy:29 January 1999 |
| Japan:23 March 2001 |
| Netherlands:27 August 1998 |
| New Zealand:16 December 1999 |
| Norway:14 August 1998 |
| Poland:9 April 1999 |
| Portugal:2 October 1998 |
| Russia:1 December 1999 |
| Spain:29 January 1999 |
| Sweden:4 September 1998 |
| UK:14 May 1999 |
| New Zealand:20 July 1999 | (Auckland Film Festival) |
| Argentina:2 April 1999 | (Buenos Aires Film Festival) |
| France:20 May 1998 | (Cannes Film Festival) |
| Switzerland:16 April 1999 | (German speaking region) |
| Hong Kong:14 April 1999 | (Hong Kong International Film Festival) |
| Turkey:1 May 1999 | (Istanbul Film Festival) |
| USA:28 April 2000 | (limited) |
| Argentina:19 November 1998 | (Mar del Plata Film Festival) |
| Iceland:16 January 1999 | (Reykjavik Film Festival) |
| Hungary:11 October 2000 | (Titanic International Filmpresence Festival) |
| PCS:Digital Betacam |
| PFM:35 mm |
| RAT:1.33 : 1 |
| OFM:Video | (PAL) |
| Dolby SR |
| Argentina:117 |
| Denmark:117 |
| Netherlands:117 |
| Spain:116 |
| UK:117 |
distribuzione cinematografica nazionale:
les films du losange
october films
alliance atlantis communications
distribution company
edko film ltd.
fidalgo
finnkino
golem distribución, s.l.
atalanta filmes
triangelfilm
usa films
scanbox
produzione cinematografica: svt drama zentropa entertainment 4 zweites deutsches fernsehen (zdf) cobo fund danish broadcasting corporation danmarks radio (dr) jennie cinematografica la sept cinéma liberator productions nordic film & tv fund pgo television holland argus film produktie arte october films vpro television rai cinemafiction 3 emme cinematografica le studio canal+
produttore cinematografico: jensen peter aalbæk schut erik slot marianne (i) van vogelpoel peter windeløv vibeke
attore: jørgensen bodil albinus jens hassing anne louise lyby troels lie kaas nikolaj prip henrik mesonero luis mieritz louise romer jorgensen knud michelsen trine riis anne-grethe bjarup steen paprika wedersøe erik moritzen michael hove anders elle jan strandberg claus spottag jens jørn martinus john bjarke lars larsen ewald friis christian clausen louise b. clemensen hans henrik lindorff lone müller erno estrup regitze munk lotte bouras marina wieth julie vaupel kirsten tillegren lillian conradi birgit wichmann albert frøge peter sørensen bent sønderaas jesper weddelsborg ditlev plannthin svend erik meyrowitsch torben petersen lis bente emiliussen palle lorentz schmidt axel albøge iris von trier lars
direttore della fotografia: von trier lars holm casper jargil jesper nyholm kristoffer
montaggio: stensgård molly marlene
sceneggiatori e soggettisti: von trier lars
produzione cinematografica: svt drama zentropa entertainment 4 zweites deutsches fernsehen (zdf) cobo fund danish broadcasting corporation danmarks radio (dr) jennie cinematografica la sept cinéma liberator productions nordic film & tv fund pgo television holland argus film produktie arte october films vpro television rai cinemafiction 3 emme cinematografica le studio canal+
produttore cinematografico: jensen peter aalbæk schut erik slot marianne (i) van vogelpoel peter windeløv vibeke
attore: jørgensen bodil albinus jens hassing anne louise lyby troels lie kaas nikolaj prip henrik mesonero luis mieritz louise romer jorgensen knud michelsen trine riis anne-grethe bjarup steen paprika wedersøe erik moritzen michael hove anders elle jan strandberg claus spottag jens jørn martinus john bjarke lars larsen ewald friis christian clausen louise b. clemensen hans henrik lindorff lone müller erno estrup regitze munk lotte bouras marina wieth julie vaupel kirsten tillegren lillian conradi birgit wichmann albert frøge peter sørensen bent sønderaas jesper weddelsborg ditlev plannthin svend erik meyrowitsch torben petersen lis bente emiliussen palle lorentz schmidt axel albøge iris von trier lars
direttore della fotografia: von trier lars holm casper jargil jesper nyholm kristoffer
montaggio: stensgård molly marlene
sceneggiatori e soggettisti: von trier lars