The Kingdom (1994)

Name: The Kingdom
Rating: 7.6

TV-MA — Mature Audiences

Rating: 7.6

IMDb

Synopsis

The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.

First Air Date: 1994-11-24

Last Air Date: 2022-10-30

Number of Seasons: 3

Number of Episodes: 13

Created By: Lars von Trier

Networks: DR1, Viaplay

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Top Cast

Udo Kier as Age Krüger / Storebror / Lillebror
Søren Pilmark as Jørgen Krogshøj
Ghita Nørby as Rigmor Mortensen
Birgitte Raaberg as Judith Petersen
Peter Mygind as Morten 'Mogge' Moesgaard
Solbjørg Højfeldt as Camilla
Laura Christensen as Mona Jensen
Ole Emil Riisager as Fortæller
Henning Jensen as Bob
Birthe Neumann as Fru Svendsen

Seasons

None (1994)

At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Unheavenly Host (1994-11-24)

Mrs Drusse, a hypochondriac psychic gets herself admitted to the Kingdom because she believes the hospital is haunted. Meanwhile, Dr Helmer, a Dane-hating Swede under investigation for malpractice joins the hospital's secret brethren.
Ep. 2: Thy Kingdom Come (1994-12-01)

Mrs Drusse continues her investigation, Krogshøj steals the severed head from Mogge and uses it to blackmail him, while Bondo is at his wits' end when a patient's relative refuses to hand over his liver infected with a rare cancer.
Ep. 3: A Foreign Body (1994-12-08)

Dr Helmer decides to steal the incriminating report but unbeknownst to him, Krogshøj has the same plan, Bondo wants to transplant the cancerous liver into himself, and Mrs Drusse finds out Mary didn't die of TB as reported.
Ep. 4: The Living Dead (1994-12-15)

Helmer goes to Haiti which angers his gun-wielding girlfriend, Judith may be pregnant with a ghost, Mrs Drusse reburies Mary's remains but her troubles are only just beginning, and Operation Morning Breeze turns into a farcical disaster.