As he grapples with Parkinson’s and considers what’s next, the director continues to provoke in “The Kingdom Exodus,” the final season of his haunted-hospital drama.
"Zentropa" is a strange, haunting, labyrinthine film about a naive American in Germany just after the end of World War II. The American, named Leo, doesn't quite know what he's doing there; he has come to take a role in rebuilding the country because, he explains, it's about time Germany was shown some kindness. No matter how that sounds, he is not a Nazi sympathizer or even particularly pro-German - just confused. His uncle, who works on the railroad, gets Leo a job as a conductor on a Pullman car, and he is gradually drawn into a whirlpool of Germany's shames and secrets.
This process begins when Leo (Jean-Marc Barr) meets a sexy heiress (Barbara Sukowa) on the train. She seduces him and then takes him home to meet her family, which owns the company - named Zentropa - which manufactures the trains. These were the very trains that took Jews to their deaths during the war, but now they run a humdrum daily schedule, and the woman's Uncle Kessler (Ernst-Hugo
20 December 2020
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Director Lars von Trier is checking back into cult medical drama series The Kingdom for a third and final run, more than 20 years after season two wrapped.
The TV horror, set in the neurosurgical ward of a hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark, was originally planned as a three-season mini-series, but the final instalments were never made, partly due to the deaths of main castmembers Ernst-Hugo Jaregard and Kirsten Rolffes.
However, von Trier is now resurrecting The Kingdom for five new episodes, titled The Kingdom Exodus, which is expected to provide answers to unsolved mysteries from 1997 s season two.