Dancer in the Dark

7.9

Denmark

Drama Crime

140 min

2000

Jens Albinus Troels Asmussen Britt Bendixen Al Agami Paprika Steen Stellan Skarsgård Luke Reilly John Martinus Katrine Falkenberg Mette Berggreen Reathel Bean Björk Udo Kier Zeljko Ivanek Siobhan Fallon Hogan Vincent Paterson Jean-Marc Barr Cara Seymour Joel Grey Peter Stormare David Morse Catherine Deneuve

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles - even if just for a moment - by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.