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Release year: 2005

Storyline

A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.

Top credits

Directors

Lars von Trier

Writers

Lars von Trier

Cast

Bryce Dallas Howard — Grace Margaret Mulligan
Isaach De Bankolé — Timothy
Danny Glover — Wilhelm
Willem Dafoe — Grace's Father

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Did you know

• When co-producer Vibeke Windeløv went to the U.S. for casting, she got a tip that Danny Glover might be interested. She immediately flew to a hotel in Salt Lake City to meet up with him. After a long talk about the project, Glover asked her for a copy of Dogville (2003). She gave him a portable DVD player with it, and left him for the night. At 6:00 a.m., Glover called her hotel room and said she had to come immediately because the DVD player's battery had run out twenty minutes before the end of the movie. She rushed to his room with a charger, and after he'd watch it through, he said yes on the spot.

• Nicole Kidman, who played Grace in Dogville (2003), was intended to star in this movie, as well as a third trilogy installment, but pulled out of the project in July 2003, due to conflicting schedules.

• John C. Reilly was originally signed to play Dr. Hector, but was replaced by Zeljko Ivanek during production. A donkey was put to death while filming, and it was reported in the U.S. magazine Entertainment Weekly that this was what prompted Reilly to walk off the set, though he has never commented publicly on the incident, or his exact reasons for leaving this movie. Executive producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen told Swedish media that "people should not be upset, instead they should think about the situation of the Third World." Since this movie was filmed in Sweden, they followed Swedish law, which says that animals can be put to death in movie productions, if a veterinarian is the one carrying out the killing. Writer and director Lars von Trier cut the scene from this movie, which was attributed to protests from animal rights groups. von Trier said that he didn't want to draw attention away from the content of this movie.