West Germany,
1990, 80 min
Directed by:
Jörg ButtgereitCinematography:
Manfred O. JelinskiCast:
Jörg Buttgereit, Harald Lundt, Bela B. Felsenheimer, Ades Zabel, Eva-Maria Kurz, Michael Krause, Hermann Kopp, Franz Rodenkirchen, Manfred O. Jelinski (more)Plots(1)
As a chain letter from the self-proclaimed “Brotherhood of the 7th Day” circulates encouraging its recipients to end their lives, a series of grim murder-suicides unfold. In one vignette, a young woman massacres a room of concert-goers before turning the gun on herself; in another, a man, driven to madness by some unspecified mental disturbance, repeatedly slams his head into a wall before collapsing in a pool of his own blood… These are just some of depictions of death and despair that make up the tortured fabric of Der Todesking. (Arrow Films)
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