The Idiots

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.

Cast

Bodil Jørgensen

as Karen

Jens Albinus

as Stoffer

Anne Louise Hassing

as Susanne

Troels Lyby

as Henrik

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

as Jeppe

Louise Mieritz

as Josephine

Henrik Prip

as Ped

Luis Mesonero

as Miguel

Trine Michelsen

as Nana

Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis

as Katrine

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 Albinu...

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