Epidemic (1987)

Directed by

Lars von Trier

Genre

drama film, horror film, thriller film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

12

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 137 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker and his co-writer rush to write a script for a producer. Their story about a doctor fighting a plague is intercut with scenes of them working.

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What happens

Epidemic is a 1987 Danish comedy-horror film co-written and directed by Lars von Trier, 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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