CRITERION COLLECTION: BREAKING THE WAVES [BLU-RAY + DVD]

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• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: Lars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson stuns as Bess, a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband (Stellan Skarsgård) is paralyzed in an oil-rig accident. Breaking the Waves, both brazen and tender, profane and pure, is an examination of the expansiveness of faith and of its limits.
• Cast: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Jonathan Hackett, Sandra Voe, Udo Kier, Mikkel Gaup, Roef Ragas, Phil McCall, Robert Robertson, Desmond Reilly, Sarah Gudgeon, Finlay Welsh, David Gallacher, Ray Jeffries, Owen Kavanagh, Bob Docherty, David Bateson, Callum Cuthbertson, Gavin Mitchell, Brian Smith, Iain Agnew, Charles Kearney, Steven Leach, Dorte Rømer, Anthony J. O'Donnell, John Wark, Ronnie McKellaig, Peter Bensted, Simon Towler Jorfald, Klaus Hjuler, Lars Von Trier, Peter Asmussen, David Pirie
• Director: Lars Von Trier
• Runtime: 2:39
• Company: Zentropa Entertainments ApS, La Sept Cinéma, TrustNordisk, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie