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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