Element of Crime
Forbrydelsens elements
Lars Von Trier
Cairo. In the humid air of his office, a portly psychotherapist listens to the confessions of a man named Fisher, who has arrived from Europe where he investigated a series of murders. To elucidate the crimes, the investigator applied the theories of Osborne, his old professor at the Police Academy, for whom the detective must necessarily identify with the criminal...
With : Fisher Michael Elphick, Kim Me Me Lei, Osborne Esmond Knight
Screenplay : Lars Von Trier, Niels Voersel
Image : Tom Elling
Music : Bo Holten
Screenplay : Lars Von Trier, Niels Voersel
Image : Tom Elling
Music : Bo Holten
Production : Per Holst Filmproduktion
Distribution: Les Films du Losange
Distribution: Les Films du Losange
" Even though today it has become inappropriate and unseemly to show it, I have a fascination for what is ugly. It's true for everyone, hell is more interesting than heaven" (Lars Von Trier). "Already in his first feature-length film, Lars Von Trier imposes his world and his aesthetic, one of hypnotising chaos and ‘visual shock'. Trier tells the fantasy-like tale of a police inspector who, under hypnosis, relives his investigation into a series of ritual murders. Trier throws us into an apocalypse only he controls.