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Epidemic(Movie, 1987)

1h 46min | Genres: Horror, Drama, Mystery
EpidemicRating: 2.9/5 (with 4444 votes)
Epidemic is a 1987 Danish experimental medical dark comedy-horror film co-written and directed by Lars von Trier; it is the second installment of Trier's Europa trilogy, following The Element of Crime (1984) and succeeded by Europa (1991). Co-written by Trier and Niels Vørsel, the film focuses on the screenwriting process. Vørsel and Trier play themselves, coming up with a last-minute script for a producer. The story is inter-cut with scenes from the film they write, in which Trier plays a renegade doctor trying to cure a modern-day epidemic. The film marks the first in a series of collaborations between Trier and Udo Kier. ()
Part of the Europa Trilogy
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About Epidemic

A director and a screenwriter write a screenplay together about a globally spreading epidemic. Unbeknownst to them, an outbreak develops around them in the real world.

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Additional Information

Plays in: Denmark
Original language: Danish (DA)
Spoken languages: Danish (DA), English (EN)
Translated into 19 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/11/1987
Cast: Lars von Trier, Udo Kier, Allan de Waal, Claes Kastholm Hansen, Ole Ernst, Michael Simpson, Niels Vørsel, Cæcilia Holbek Trier, Ib Hansen, Olaf Ussing, Leif Magnusson, Lennart Pasborg, Ali Hamann
Director: Lars von Trier
Film Editor: Lars von Trier, Thomas Kragh, Thomas Krag
Director of Photography: Henning Bendtsen
Composer: Peter Bach
Production Designer: Søren Gam
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"エピデミック 伝染病"
"에피데믹"
Keywords: morgue
Color: Black & White (B/W)

3 movies in the Europa Trilogy

1984 The Element of Crime ("Forbrydelsens element")
1987 Epidemic
1991 Europa

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:118590, Added: 03/22/2018, Last updated: 02/29/2024