Director
Lars von Trier
Composer
Bo Holten
Cast
Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai
Edition 2000
104'
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1984
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Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Dialogue:
Arabic, German, English
Fisher, an investigator, returns from Europe to Caïro and seeks the help of a psychotherapist. Under hypnosis he relives his experiences. In a much changed and decaying Europe he visits Osborne, his former teacher at the police academy and author of Fisher’s bible ‘The Element Of Crime’ advocates the assumption of the criminal’s point of view by the investigator; a method directed towards the solution of a crime through complete understanding of its origins. Fisher’s attempts to reconstruct the murder case lead him more and more to the character of Harry Grey. It is a perilous path which brings him closer to the truth – Grey no longer exists.
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Credits
Directors
Lars von Trier
Composers
Bo Holten
Cast
Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lai
Scenario
Niels Vørsel, William Quarshie, Stephen Wakelam
Director of Photography
Tom Elling
Editors
Tómas Gislason
Producers
Per Holst
More info
Dialogue
Arabic, German, English
Countries of production
Denmark
Year
1984
Filmography
Lars von Trier
Befrielsesbilleder (1982), The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987), Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), The Idiots (1998), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville: The Pilot (2003), The Five Obstructions (2003), Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), The Boss of It All (2006), To Each His Own Cinema (2007), Antichrist (2009), Dimension 1991-2024 (2010), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013), The House That Jack Built (2018)