A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech dislodges all the masks, which finally fall completely as the father-son conflict intensifies and the bewildered guests look on.
Starring: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen, Birthe Neumann
Produced by: Birgitte Hald, Morten Kaufmann, Anthony Dod Mantle, Valdís Óskarsdóttir, Thomas Vinterberg
Genre: Drama
Original Runtime: 105 minutes
Release Date: 6/19/1998
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10 by 465 users