Festen

- 1998
- Germany
- 1h 46min
- 15
- Directed by: Thomas Vinterberg
- Written by: Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov
- Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen, Birthe Neumann, Trine Dyrholm
- Language: Danish
Made under the banner of Dogme 95, a chief dictum of which filmic manifesto is that the inner lives of the characters must justify the workings of the plot, in this case the story of a country house party given to celebrate the 60th birthday of rich patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt. Tensions surface before long and a disturbing family secret is revealed.
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