With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of…

A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence of an ageless evil that may once have preyed on man.

The film takes place in Vicenza in 1956. Anna (Guerin), a beautiful lawyer’s wife, feels abandoned by her husband and grows closer to their maid, Angela (Michelsen). The maid convinces…