When her landlord steals the savings for her son’s eye operation, a factory worker going blind kills him and says nothing at her murder trial.

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When her failing eyes cost her the factory job, a Czech immigrant who escapes into imagined musical numbers keeps saving for the operation that spares her son her blindness; but when her landlord steals the tin and forces her to shoot him, she pays the surgeon and says nothing to the court that hangs her.

Film: Dancer in the Dark · Writer(s): Lars von Trier · Director: Lars von Trier · Year: 2000