
The Idiots
Society is the mother of all Idiots.
A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
- Year: 1998
- Country: Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Studio: Zentropa Entertainments, DR TV, La Sept Cinéma, Liberator Productions, VPRO, Argus Film Produktie, ZDF/Arte
- Keyword: mentally disabled, staging, normality, freedom, lifestyle, commune, test of courage, idiot, publicity, social control, mockery, simulation, bodily disabled person, psychology, coercion, found footage, burlesque, ironic, dogme 95, witty, semi-erect penis, erect penis
- Director: Lars von Trier
- Cast: Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Troels Lyby, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Louise Mieritz