Dogville

Jahr

2003

IMDb-ID

tt0276919

Regie

Lars von Trier

Sprache

English, French

Land

Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Finland, Norway, Italy

Laufzeit

171 min

Besetzung

Lauren Bacall, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany

Genre

Crime, Drama

Handlung

Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been heard by Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed moral spokesman for the town. Persuaded by Tom, the town agree to hide Grace, and in return she freely helps the locals. However, when the Sheriff from a neighbouring town posts a Missing notice, advertising a reward for revealing her whereabouts, the townsfolk require a better deal from Grace, in return for their silence; and when the Sheriff returns some weeks later with a Wanted poster, even though the citizens know her to be innocent of the false charges against her, the town's sense of goodness takes a sinister turn and the price of Grace's freedom becomes a workload and treatment akin to that of a slave. But Grace has a deadly secret that the townsfolk will eventually encounter.