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Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves ( finland Finland (DVD title), france France) Amor omnie ( denmark Denmark (working title)) Amour est un pouvoir sacré, L' ( canada Canada (French title)) Breaking the waves - Aallonmurtaja ( finland Finland (TV title)) Contra viento y marea ( Argentina) Dalgalari asmak ( turkey Turkey (Turkish title)) Damazontas ta kymata ( greece Greece) Hullámtörés ( hungary Hungary) Lom valov ( Slovenia) Ondas de Paixão ( Portugal) Ondas do Destino ( brazil Brazil) Onde del destino, Le ( italy Italy) Przelamujac fale ( poland Poland) Rompiendo las olas ( spain Spain) Suurinta elämässä ( finland Finland)

Director:: Lars von Trier
Release Date:: 04 Oct 1996
Genre:: Romance / Drama
Country:: Denmark
Runtime:: 159 min

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Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil (Emily Watson) meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan (Stellan Skarsgaard). Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behaviour, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover.