The Element of Crime (1984)

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category: movies > dvds

director: Lars von Trier

studio: Criterion Collection

year: 1984

country: Denmark

format: 1:85:1

number of discs: 1

movie length: 104 minutes

region: 1

cast: Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Meme Lai, Jerold Wells, Ahmed El Shenawi, Astrid Henning-Jensen, János Herskó, Leerdorff-Rye, Gotha Andersen, Lars von Trier

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Lars von Trier's stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for young girls. Influenced equally by Hitchcock and science fiction, von Trier (Europa, Breaking the Waves, The Idiots) boldly reinvents expressionist style for his own cinematic vision of a post-apocalyptic world. Shot in shades of sepia, with occasional, startling flashes of bright blue, The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens Element) combines dark mystery and operatic sweep to yield a pure celluloid nightmare.