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The Idiots

Idioterne

  • Status: Released
  • 28-04-1998
  • Runtime: 114 min
  • Score: 6.49
  • Vote count: 610

A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.

Bodil Jørgensen

Karen

Jens Albinus

Stoffer

Anne Louise Hassing

Susanne

Troels Lyby

Henrik

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Jeppe

Louise Mieritz

Josephine

Henrik Prip

Ped

Luis Mesonero

Miguel

Trine Michelsen

Nana

Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis

Katrine

Paprika Steen

High Class Lady

Erik Wedersøe

Stoffer's Uncle

Michael Moritzen

Man from Municipality

Anders Hove

Josephine's Father

Jan Elle

Waiter

Claus Strandberg

Guide at Factory

Jens Jørn Spottag

Boss at Advertising Agency

John Martinus

Man in Morning-Jacket

Lars Bjarke

Rocker #1

Ewald Larsen

Rocker #2

Christian Friis

Rocker #3

Hans Henrik Clemensen

Karen's Husband - Anders

Lone Lindorff

Karen's Mother

Erno Müller

Karen's Grandfather

Regitze Estrup

Karen's Sister - Louise

Lotte Munk

Karen's Sister - Britta

Marina Bouras

Axel's Wife

Julie Wieth

Woman with 2 Kids

Kirsten Vaupel

Art Class Lady #1

Lillian Tillegreen

Art Class Lady #2

Birgit Conradi

Art Class Lady #3

Peter Frøge

Man in the Swimmingpool

Albert Wichmann

High Class Man

Ditlev Weddelsborg

Severin at Advertising Agency

Jesper Sønderaas

Svendsen at Advertising Agency

Svend Erik Plannthin

Mongoloid

Torben Meyrowitsch

Mongoloid

Lis Bente Petersen

Mongoloid

Palle Lorentz Emiliussen

Mongoloid

Axel Schmidt

Mongoloid

Iris Albøge

Qualified Carer

Lars von Trier

Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

Louise Clausen

Rocker Girl

Knud Romer

Axel

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I'm really not one for surreal cinema, so after the first ten minutes of this I was starting to dread it. Well, I didn't. It's really quite a fun observational drama that follows a disparate group of friends who live on the outskirts of Copenhagen in an house that their leader "Stoffer" (Jens Albinus) is supposed to be selling. They survive on a diet of eating, drinking, getting stoned and shagged but mostly by implementing scamming scenarios in which they all pretend - to varying degrees - to be, well, idiots! It proves quite a successful ploy for getting free meals, cash - they play well on the embarrassment their behaviour can be for the "ordinary" folk who really just want them to go away! These are partially cynical activities, but they also serve to illustrate just how mundane day-to-day life can be, and with the aid of their new member "Karen" (Bodil Jørgensen) - who does actually, we discover, have some rather more serious baggage - we embark on quite a funny two hours of slapstick-cum-darkly, sometimes debauched, humorous antics. Now, personally, I didn't much like the "Stoffer" character - he had a degree of megalomania about him, but the rest of this mixes the serious with the foolish, the characterful with the banal and raises a smile all quite engagingly - even if some of it can be borderline excruciating to watch!