Additional information for Antichrist, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 23, 2009. The film is being distributed by IFC Films and has not yet been rated. The film's total running time is still unknown.
VM18
Italy
15
Denmark
15
Sweden
18
Norway
K-18
Finland
18
Poland
-16
France
18
Switzerland
18
UK
18
Ireland
R18
New Zealand
18
Germany
R
Australia
18
Iceland
18
Brazil
18+
Canada
16
Netherlands
16
Argentina
Not Rated
USA
18
Spain
16
Austria
May 18, 2009
France
May 20, 2009
Denmark
May 22, 2009
Italy
May 29, 2009
Poland
June 3, 2009
France
June 5, 2009
Finland
June 5, 2009
Norway
June 5, 2009
Sweden
June 24, 2009
UK
July 2, 2009
Kazakhstan
July 2, 2009
Russia
July 8, 2009
Czech Republic
July 24, 2009
UK
August 12, 2009
Bosnia and Herzegovina
August 21, 2009
Spain
August 23, 2009
Netherlands
August 28, 2009
Brazil
September 10, 2009
Canada
September 10, 2009
Germany
September 16, 2009
Belgium
September 21, 2009
Finland
September 25, 2009
Thailand
September 25, 2009
USA
September 28, 2009
Iceland
September 29, 2009
Romania
October 1, 2009
Greece
October 2, 2009
USA
October 10, 2009
Estonia
October 16, 2009
Romania
October 21, 2009
USA
October 22, 2009
Portugal
October 23, 2009
USA
October 29, 2009
Austria
October 29, 2009
Netherlands
November 6, 2009
Taiwan
November 10, 2009
Argentina
November 13, 2009
Canada
November 26, 2009
Australia
January 7, 2010
Slovenia
When nature turns evil, true terror awaits. (UK)
Chapter One: Grief
At the child's funeral, She collapses and spends a month mostly unconscious in the hospital. When she wakes, She is crippled with grief and He, a therapist, takes it upon himself to talk his wife through the grief process. He has her flush her prescribed medication down the toilet. After a less-than-fruitful time of catharsis at home, during which She tries to hide the pain with sex, He decides exposure therapy will be effective. She tells him that she is most afraid at a cabin in the woods at which she spent time alone with Nic the previous summer, whilst writing a thesis on gynocide. The couple travel to Eden, the cabin. During the journey He sees a deer which is mid-stillbirth - a calf is protruding from its rear end.
Chapter Two: Pain (Chaos Reigns)
When at the cabin, She again attempts to have sex with her husband. He does not comprehend her fear of the natural world and tries to solve her fears with psychotherapy, despite their relationship creating a conflict of interest. She becomes increasingly manic and grief-stricken. Meanwhile, the natural world surrounding the cabin continually proves itself to be forbidding and nihilistic; acorns pelt the cabin like gunfire, and at one point He comes across a self-disembowelling fox which seems to utter the words, "Chaos reigns". He begins to understand his wife's fear of nature: that the nihilism seen in nature is just as present in humanity.
Chapter Three: Despair (Gynocide)
While searching the cabin, He finds materials studied by his wife for her thesis: pictures of witch-hunts and a scrapbook filled with articles and notes on misogynist topics, in which her handwriting becomes more illegible as the pages go on. She, due to intense self-blame over Nic's death, comes to embrace the belief that women are inherently evil. He confronts her with Nic's autopsy report, which states that the bones in both of his feet were distorted. In a toolshed, He finds photographs of Nic, in which his boots are regularly on the wrong feet. She attacks her husband mid-coitus in the shed, crushing his genitals with a block of wood. While he is unconscious, She masturbates him until he orgasms, ejaculating blood onto her shirt and face. She then drills a hole through his calf, and bolts a heavy millstone to his leg. She flees outside leaving him unconscious in the shed, throwing the tool She used to tighten the millstone under the cabin.
He wakes up and drags himself away, finding a foxhole in which to hide. While She frantically searches for him, He finds a crow buried alive, which makes noise upon waking, giving away his hiding place. He beats it repeatedly but it survives. She finds him and tries burying him alive, but digs him up several hours afterwards.
Chapter Four: The Three Beggars
During a confrontation in the house, She takes a pair of scissors and performs a clitoridectomy upon herself, and curls up on the floor in agnonising pain.
During the night the couple are visited by "the 3 Beggars" (a deer who represents grief, a fox who represents pain and a crow who represents despair) and acorns again beat against the roof of the cabin. Hearing the crow under neath the floor board he breaks through the through the floor of the shed, discovering the tool with which to release the millstone from his leg, and then strangles his wife, killing her. He burns the body outside the cabin on a pyre, which was shown upon his arrival at the cabin.
Epilogue
He makes his way from the cabin, finding a patch of berries along the way and eats the berries from the ground. Upon reaching the top of a hill, he turns around and sees "the 3 Beggars" (deer, fox and crow) behind him slowly fading away until completely gone. He looks down to see hundreds of women rushing up the hill towards him, their faces white and blurred. [D-Man2010]
Lars von Trier
Director(s)
Lars von Trier
Writer(s)
Bettina Brokemper
executive co-producer
Madeleine Ekman
co-producer
Meta Louise Foldager
producer
Peter Garde
executive producer
Sanne Glæsel
line producer: Denmark and Germany
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
executive producer
Lars Jönsson
co-producer
Andrea Occhipinti
co-producer
Ole Østergaard
co-producer
Johannes Rexin
line producer: Germany
Marianne Slot
executive co-producer
Malgorzata Szumowska
co-producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
He
Willem Dafoe
She
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Antychryst
Poland
Anticristo
Brazil
Anticristo
Argentina
Антихрист
Russia
Antikrist
Slovenia
O antihristos
Greece
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
At the child's funeral, She collapses and spends a month mostly unconscious in the hospital. When she wakes, She is crippled with grief and He, a therapist, takes it upon himself to talk his wife through the grief process. He has her flush her prescribed medication down the toilet. After a less-than-fruitful time of catharsis at home, during which She tries to hide the pain with sex, He decides exposure therapy will be effective. She tells him that she is most afraid at a cabin in the woods at which she spent time alone with Nic the previous summer, whilst writing a thesis on gynocide. The couple travel to Eden, the cabin. During the journey He sees a deer which is mid-stillbirth - a calf is protruding from its rear end.
Chapter Two: Pain (Chaos Reigns)
When at the cabin, She again attempts to have sex with her husband. He does not comprehend her fear of the natural world and tries to solve her fears with psychotherapy, despite their relationship creating a conflict of interest. She becomes increasingly manic and grief-stricken. Meanwhile, the natural world surrounding the cabin continually proves itself to be forbidding and nihilistic; acorns pelt the cabin like gunfire, and at one point He comes across a self-disembowelling fox which seems to utter the words, "Chaos reigns". He begins to understand his wife's fear of nature: that the nihilism seen in nature is just as present in humanity.
Chapter Three: Despair (Gynocide)
While searching the cabin, He finds materials studied by his wife for her thesis: pictures of witch-hunts and a scrapbook filled with articles and notes on misogynist topics, in which her handwriting becomes more illegible as the pages go on. She, due to intense self-blame over Nic's death, comes to embrace the belief that women are inherently evil. He confronts her with Nic's autopsy report, which states that the bones in both of his feet were distorted. In a toolshed, He finds photographs of Nic, in which his boots are regularly on the wrong feet. She attacks her husband mid-coitus in the shed, crushing his genitals with a block of wood. While he is unconscious, She masturbates him until he orgasms, ejaculating blood onto her shirt and face. She then drills a hole through his calf, and bolts a heavy millstone to his leg. She flees outside leaving him unconscious in the shed, throwing the tool She used to tighten the millstone under the cabin.
He wakes up and drags himself away, finding a foxhole in which to hide. While She frantically searches for him, He finds a crow buried alive, which makes noise upon waking, giving away his hiding place. He beats it repeatedly but it survives. She finds him and tries burying him alive, but digs him up several hours afterwards.
Chapter Four: The Three Beggars
During a confrontation in the house, She takes a pair of scissors and performs a clitoridectomy upon herself, and curls up on the floor in agnonising pain.
During the night the couple are visited by "the 3 Beggars" (a deer who represents grief, a fox who represents pain and a crow who represents despair) and acorns again beat against the roof of the cabin. Hearing the crow under neath the floor board he breaks through the through the floor of the shed, discovering the tool with which to release the millstone from his leg, and then strangles his wife, killing her. He burns the body outside the cabin on a pyre, which was shown upon his arrival at the cabin.
Epilogue
He makes his way from the cabin, finding a patch of berries along the way and eats the berries from the ground. Upon reaching the top of a hill, he turns around and sees "the 3 Beggars" (deer, fox and crow) behind him slowly fading away until completely gone. He looks down to see hundreds of women rushing up the hill towards him, their faces white and blurred. [D-Man2010]
Director(s)
Writer(s)
executive co-producer
Madeleine Ekman
co-producer
Meta Louise Foldager
producer
Peter Garde
executive producer
Sanne Glæsel
line producer: Denmark and Germany
Peter Aalbæk Jensen
executive producer
Lars Jönsson
co-producer
Andrea Occhipinti
co-producer
Ole Østergaard
co-producer
Johannes Rexin
line producer: Germany
Marianne Slot
executive co-producer
Malgorzata Szumowska
co-producer
Producer(s)
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