- Actors: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler, Benoît Régent
- Directors: Claude Chabrol
- Writers: Claude Chabrol, Norbert Jacques, Sollace Mitchell, Thomas Bauermeister
- Producers: Christoph Holch, François Duplat, Hans Brockmann
- Format: PAL
- Language German, English
- Subtitles: German
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Al!ve AG
- DVD Release Date: 29 Aug 2005
- Run Time: 94 minutes
- ASIN: B000AQEHMG
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 73,889 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Germany released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), German ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), Uncut, SYNOPSIS: Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse. The film features an all-star international cast as it tells the futuristic horror story of a bizarre epidemic which has swept West Berlin leaving a grim trail of grisly suicides. Meanwhile, the media broadcasts weird, highly suggestive propaganda. The authorities are appalled by all the bloodshed, but only one lone cop suspects that the 'suicides' are really the work of a demented criminal mastermind. The film is also known as Dr. M. ...Dr. M ( Docteur M. ) ( Club Extinction )
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Coporate Domination in a Futuristic World.
25 Aug 2008
Art-House Indie Sci-Fi Thriller from famed French Director.
An epidemic of greed is the cause of bizarre deaths that is sweeping through a future-shocked city. The city is Berlin in the 21 st Century. A city controlled by hypnotic propaganda brought to them by huge corporate conglomerate. Alan Bates directs the subliminal madness. His disembodied heart beats faster as the deaths increase and the panic builds. The Assassin (andew mccarthy) is the wall between freedom and mass destruction. Chaos descends as this world of the future rushes to oblivion. Euro Sci-Fi thriller from acclaimed director Claude Chabrol. Foreign International film with American cast featuring Andrew McCarthy and Jennifer Beals. 1990 US Uncut Prism video Release 112mins.
An epidemic of greed is the cause of bizarre deaths that is sweeping through a future-shocked city. The city is Berlin in the 21 st Century. A city controlled by hypnotic propaganda brought to them by huge corporate conglomerate. Alan Bates directs the subliminal madness. His disembodied heart beats faster as the deaths increase and the panic builds. The Assassin (andew mccarthy) is the wall between freedom and mass destruction. Chaos descends as this world of the future rushes to oblivion. Euro Sci-Fi thriller from acclaimed director Claude Chabrol. Foreign International film with American cast featuring Andrew McCarthy and Jennifer Beals. 1990 US Uncut Prism video Release 112mins.
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Why Bother?
2 Dec 2011
As this science fiction movie opens, we witness three events in Berlin (before the fall of the wall) resulting in multiple deaths. In one case, an explosion is so horrific that people on both sides of the Berlin Wall are killed. At a high level meeting of government officials, military officers and police there is a debate: are these accidents or are they suicides. Over 500 people have been killed in similar circumstances. Lt. Hartman argues that they are suicides, perhaps there is a suicide virus. He is overruled and the management of the investigation is reassigned to Capt. Engler. Dr. Marsfeldt enters the meeting (why?). He suggests people need more vacations, and he happens to run Theratos Company a provider of vacation travel. Once outside, Hartman observes projection screens above street level protraying Sonja Vogler (Jennifer Beals)repeating in a hypnotic cadence "It is time to get away." These are ads for Theratos.
Despite Engler's repeated repudiation of Hartman's investigation, Hartman continues on. The rest of the story is told from Hartman's point of view. There are more deaths. A link is discovered in that each of the deceased possesses either a picture of Sonja or a card with the logo of Theratos. How is she connected to these victims? Elements of the plot include Hartman meeting Vogler, an assasination attempt on Sonja, Hartman's romance of her, the death of Hartman's police partner Stieglitz(murder or suicide?), secret reports by Capt. Engler to Dr. Marsfeldt, and the aura of the Club Extinction where Berlin's jaded youth rock maniacally while images of mushroom cloud explosions play on the club walls. What is Sonja's link to the series of deaths? Is she a victim of the strange manipulations of Dr. Marsfeldt?
As the plot unfolded, I found that I did not care for the characters or the story. The film itself is disjointed. For example Dr. Marsfeldt's appearance at the meeting of government officials has no connection to the meeting other than showing a video of people going on vacation. Also, Sonja and Hartman vacation at a Theratos resort in the middle of the desert, decide to get away in the middle of the night and conveniently a car is driving through the middle of the dunes to aid the escape.
I like Jennifer Beals as an actress and that was the draw for me to watch this film. She does show the greatest range of the actors in this film. But I felt that this French-Italian-German production (in English) had no merit.
Despite Engler's repeated repudiation of Hartman's investigation, Hartman continues on. The rest of the story is told from Hartman's point of view. There are more deaths. A link is discovered in that each of the deceased possesses either a picture of Sonja or a card with the logo of Theratos. How is she connected to these victims? Elements of the plot include Hartman meeting Vogler, an assasination attempt on Sonja, Hartman's romance of her, the death of Hartman's police partner Stieglitz(murder or suicide?), secret reports by Capt. Engler to Dr. Marsfeldt, and the aura of the Club Extinction where Berlin's jaded youth rock maniacally while images of mushroom cloud explosions play on the club walls. What is Sonja's link to the series of deaths? Is she a victim of the strange manipulations of Dr. Marsfeldt?
As the plot unfolded, I found that I did not care for the characters or the story. The film itself is disjointed. For example Dr. Marsfeldt's appearance at the meeting of government officials has no connection to the meeting other than showing a video of people going on vacation. Also, Sonja and Hartman vacation at a Theratos resort in the middle of the desert, decide to get away in the middle of the night and conveniently a car is driving through the middle of the dunes to aid the escape.
I like Jennifer Beals as an actress and that was the draw for me to watch this film. She does show the greatest range of the actors in this film. But I felt that this French-Italian-German production (in English) had no merit.
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