Lars von Trier, the director of Dancer in the Dark, has Parkinson’s disease

Lars von Trier was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Zentropa announced. The production company, which von Trier co-founded in 1992 with producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen, said the director is “in good spirits and looking after his symptoms” as he continues to complete. The Exodus of the Kingdom, the third and the last following. season of your series The kingdom.

Zentropa added that Von Trier will be attending limited press events for the series when it premieres later this year. The Exodus of the Kingdom It will be presented in world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Mubi announced in July that it has obtained the distribution rights for the television season in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.

The Exodus of the Kingdom closes the director’s controversial television series, which was first broadcast in 1994 by the Danish public broadcaster DR. The series follows the staff and patients of a neurosurgery department in a Copenhagen hospital. In season three, sleepwalker Karen seeks answers to the show’s unresolved questions to save the hospital from doom. “The door to the Kingdom is opening once again …” teases an official synopsis of the series.

The new season’s cast includes Mikael Persbrandt, Lars Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Tuva Novotny and David Dencik, with Alexander Skarsgård and David Dencik as guest stars.

Von Trier co-wrote The Exodus of the Kingdom with Niels Vorsel. The show’s previous two seasons were written in advance. Von Trier’s other credits include The house Jack built (2018), nymphomaniac (2014), meloncholy (2011) and Dogville (2004). His 2000 musical Dancer in the Dark (Dancer in the dark), played by Bjork, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Danish director has been banned for seven years since Cannes Film Festival in 2011 to testify at a press conference from melancholiesbecause he “sympathized” with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

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