Dogville
Dogville is a 2003 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman hiding from mobsters, who arrives in the small mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, and is provided refuge in return for physical labor.
Plot
The story of Dogville is told in nine chapters and a prologue, with a one-sentence description of each chapter given in the film, in the vein of such chapter headings in many 19th-century novels. These descriptions are given below.
Awards
Cast
- Ben Gazzara
- Bill Raymond
- Blair Brown
- Chloë Sevigny
- Cleo King
- Elisabeth Falk
- Gunnar Johansson
- Harriet Andersson
- Ingvar Örner
- James Caan
- Jan Coster
- Jean-Marc Barr
- Jeremy Davies
- John Hurt
- Lauren Bacall
- Nicole Kidman
- Patricia Clarkson
- Paul Bettany
- Philip Baker Hall
- Shauna Shim
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan
- Stellan Skarsgård
- Thom Hoffman
- Udo Kier
- Željko Ivanek