Der Todesking (1989)

Directed by

Jörg Buttgereit

Genre

drama film, horror film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 14m

Rated

NC-17

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows seven episodes about suicide and violent death, one for each day of the week. It has no main characters and includes a slowly rotting body as a framing device.

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What happens

Der Todesking (lit. 'The Death King') is a 1990 German horror film directed by Jörg Buttgereit. This experimental-style movie, which does not use central characters, explores the topic of suicide and violent death in the form of seven episodes, each one attributed to one day of the week. These episodes are enframed by the vision of a human body, slowly rotting during the course of the movie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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