Epidemic (film)

Epidemic is a Danish science fiction horror film of 1987 directed by Lars von Trier, the second installment of Triers Europa trilogy. The other two films in the trilogy are The Element of Crime 1984 and Europa 1991.

The film is divided into five days. On the first day the protagonists, screenwriters Lars and Niels lose the only copy of a film script Kommisren Og Luderen, The Policeman and the Whore, a reference to The Element of Crime. They begin to write a new script about an epidemic the outbreak of a plaguelike disease. The protagonist is a doctor, Mesmer, who, against the will of the Faculty of Medicine of an unknown city, goes to the countryside to help people. During the next days, the facts of the script join the reallife events in which a similar disease starts to spread. Lars and Niels go to Germany, where they meet a man who describes the Allied bombing of Cologne during the Second World War.After the trip, Niels goes to a hospital where he undergoes a minor surgical procedure and while there tells Lars to go to see Palle, a pathologist who is performing an autopsy on a man who has recently died of an unknown disease. The last day, Lars and Niels have a dinner with their producer, to whom they reveal the end of the film, that Mesmer and his medical kit have spread the disease. The producer doesnt like the short twelvepage script, which has no violence, few deaths, and no subplots which are common in Danish cinema. After that a hypnotist and a woman arrive in the house, to help writing the script, but the woman is overpowered by the visions of the script which are becoming real. She commits suicide, then another woman who shares the house with Lars and Niels dies too, and Niels begins showing the signs of the disease. ........

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