Epidemic
Epidemic
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"Among [von Trier's] better and most revealing movies" -- The Village Voice
"Mesmerizing" -- Chicago Tribune
A director (Lars von Trier) and a screenwriter (Niels Vørsel) determine to crank out a horror script about a deadly plague. Intermingled with this simple storyline is the movie-within-a-movie of their screenplay, a fantasy world evocative of classic horror movies and psychological scream-fests. Twist this with an actual epidemic that seems to be ravaging Germany, to which von Trier and Vørsel are both oblivious...until it's too late. See it to believe it, this enthralling black-comedy collides film styles and bends reality in ways only von Trier can.
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Epidemic is a 1987 film directed by Lars von Trier. It is the second of three films known collectively as the Europa trilogy. Co-written by Niels Vørsel, it focuses on the screenwriting process. Lars and Niels play themselves, coming up with a last-minute script for a producer. This story is intercut with scenes from the film they write, in which Lars plays a renegade doctor trying to cure a modern-day epidemic. In an ironic twist, the doctor discovers that he himself has been spreading the virus. This film marks the first in a series of collaborations between von Trier and...
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