Breaking the Waves

With 'Breaking the Waves', film prodigy Lars von Trier left his postmodern, genre-ironic universes and struck up the great psychological melodrama. The film about the young naive Bess (Emily Watson in her feature film debut) and her love for her beloved husband Jan (Stellan Skarsgård) became a worldwide hit and still stands today as one of Trier's most central works. The film is 159 minutes of intensive emotion conveyed in hand-held, coarse-grained Cinemascope, and it hits like a fist in the diaphragm.

Directed by: Lars von Trier
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr
Country/year: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, United Kingdom, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, United States, 1996
Running time: 158 min.
Formato: DCP
Language: Danish subtitles
Age limit: Allowed for children over 15

Part of the series: Filmuniversitetet - morgen
In collaboration with Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Cinemateket shows important film historical milestones. The films are shown on Tuesday mornings at 9.15am and always with a 15-minute introduction by the university's film history experts.