Epidemic (1987)

Directors

Lars von Trier

Cast

Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel, Udo Kier, Lars von Trier

The story

In a metafiction version of the film divided into five days, the first day of the protagonists sees screenwriters Lars and Niels lose the only copy of a film script (Kommisæren Og Luderen, "The Policeman and the Whore", a reference to The Element of Crime). They begin to write a new script about an epidemic: the outbreak of a plague-like disease. Another protagonist is a doctor, Mesmer, who, against the will of the Faculty of Medicine of an unknown city, goes to the countryside to help people.

Genres

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