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...A powerful story, set in a remote Scottish village in the early 1970s, about a unique young woman and her profound...madly in love with Jan, an oil-rig worker, and against the wishes of the strict Calvinist elders of her community, she marries...

...writer and director Lars von Trier ("Zentropa," "The Xingdom"), needs some explaining. Watson's luminous portrayal goes straight to the heart. "Breaking the Waves" won the Grand Jury prize at Cannes, but you can...

Lars von Trier has been one of the splashiest talents that Danish--indeed European--cinema has produced in years. His reputation as one of a few genuine 'enfants terribles' of cinema in the 1980s and…

Extraordinarily handsome, classically trained actor who made his film debut as Absalom in Bruce Beresford's 1985 biblical bomb, "King David". Fluent in several languages, Barr earned his first leading…

This German-born leading man and character player has acted successfully in American and European productions, working with a number of important directors including his lifelong friend Rainer Werner…

Right from the beginning, when she made her feature debut in Lars von Trier’s “Breaking the Waves” (1996), actress Emily Watson found herself an international star. Watson came out of nowhere to charm…