Breaking the Waves

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  • R
  • Genre(s):DramaRomance
  • Release year: 1996
  • Running time: 159 min
Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson stuns as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives...read more
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Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson stuns as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Stellan Skarsgård) is paralyzed in an oil rig accident. Breaking the Waves, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits.

Original Release

07/05/1996

US Release

11/13/1996

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Cast

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Directors

Lars von Trier

Writers

Lars von Trier, Peter Asmussen, David Pirie

Cast

Producers

Editors

Anders Refn

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