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''[[Riget]]'' ("The Realm") is a danishDanish TV-series created and co-directed by the avant-garde filmaker, [[Lars von Trier]]. It roots in the [[Medical Drama]] genre, but it also contains copious amounts of [[Surreal Horror|surreal]] and [[Religious Horror]], dark humor and supernatural events. Entirely filmed on location with hand-held cameras and grimy, sepia-tinted pictures, it has been described by critics as "''[[Twin Peaks]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''".
 
The setting for the series is the eponymous ''Rigshospitalet'' (The National Hospital) in Copenhagen, with focus on the neurosurgical ward and it's employees and their somewhat mundane everyday life. But, as the [[Opening Narration]] explains, something strange is slowly infesting the old building, and it is growing stronger.