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The Idiots (1998)

R04/28/1998Comedy, Drama1h 54m

Society is the mother of all Idiots.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Bodil Jørgensen

    Karen

  2. Cast 1

    Jens Albinus

    Stoffer

  3. Cast 1

    Anne Louise Hassing

    Susanne

  4. Cast 1

    Troels Lyby

    Henrik

  5. Cast 1

    Nikolaj Lie Kaas

    Jeppe

  6. Cast 1

    Louise Mieritz

    Josephine

  7. Cast 1

    Henrik Prip

    Ped

  8. Luis Mesonero

    Miguel

  9. Cast 1

    Trine Michelsen

    Nana

I'm really not one for surreal cinema, so after the first ten minutes of this I was starting to dread it. Well, I didn't. It's really quite a fun observational drama that follows a disparate group of friends who live on the outskirts of Copenhagen in an house that their leader "Stoffer" (Jens Albinus) is supposed to be selling. They survive on a diet of eating, drinking, getting stoned and shagged but mostly by implementing scamming scenarios in which they all pretend - to varying degrees - to be, well, idiots! It proves quite a successful ploy for getting free meals, cash - they play well on ...