The Kingdom: Series 1

Once fog-wreathed marshland, now a state of the art hospital complex, The Kingdom stands as a testament to medicine and the mastery of science. But beneath its echoing corridors the gateways to the spirit world swing loose on their hinges. Some secrets are too terrible to stay buried. It is a time of arrivals at The Kingdom. The infamous Swedish surgeon Stig Helmer has taken up his new post, much to the distress of his Danish colleagues. The position promises to be an eventful one - while Helmer is inducted into the sinister brotherhood of surgeons and performs surgery on a patient who cannot be anaesthetised, his involvement with a brain-damaged patient leaves him open to legal proceedings and a blackmail ply by the idealistic Dr Krogshoj. And there are other, less wholesome presences beginning to make themselves known in the labyrinthine hospital. When the imagined illnesses of Mrs Sigrid Drusse lead her to be admitted as a patient, she discovers The Kingdom's resident ghost weeping in the life shafts and embarks on a supernatural search for the wayward spirit. Dr Judith is prenant with a highly unusual baby, ghostly ambulances arrive with neither patients or drivers, Dr Bondo finds himself unable to resist the lure of a dying man's tumour and just what is the lovesick Dr Mogge doing in the morgue with a hacksaw? The Kingdom is a double-packed feast of bizarre hospital drama and haunting supernatural mystery from director Lars von Trier. Be warned: The Kingdom is an adventure and a hospital unlike anything you have seen before.