Overview
Plot
Selma, a Czech immigrant facing blindness, works to afford an operation for her son, who inherited the same genetic disorder. She copes with hardship through her love of musicals, imagining musical numbers in the sounds around her.
- Directors
- Lars von Trier
- Cast
- Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour, Vladica Kostic, Jean-Marc Barr, Vincent Paterson, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Željko Ivanek, Udo Kier, Jens Albinus, Reathel Bean, Mette Berggreen, Lars Michael Dinesen, Katrine Falkenberg, Michael Flessas, John Randolph Jones, Noah Lazarus
- Country
- Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden
- Genre
- Drama, Crime
- Release date
- 2000-09-01
- Studios
- Zentropa Entertainments, DR, SVT Drama, ARTE, France 3 Cinéma, Blind Spot Pictures, Liberator Productions, Íslenska kvikmyndasamsteypan, Pain Unlimited Filmproduktion, Trust Film Svenska, Cinematograph, What Else?, ARTE France Cinéma, Film i Väst, WDR
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Selma, a Czech immigrant, is losing her sight and struggles to support her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will face the same fate without an expensive operation. As life grows harder, she finds solace in her passion for musicals, creating little musical numbers in her mind to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
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