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Encyclopedia > Epidemic (film)

Epidemic is a 1987 film directed by Lars von Trier. It is co-written by Niels Vorsel, and focuses on the screenwriting process. Lars and Niels play themselves, coming up with a last-minute script for a producer. This story is intercut with scenes from the film they write, where Lars plays a renegade doctor out to cure a modern day epidemic. In an ironic twist of fate, the doctor discovers that he has been spreading the virus himself. This film marks the first in a slew of collaborations between von Trier and Udo Kier. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lars von Trier shooting Dogville. ... In epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people) is a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is expected, based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a... Udo Kier, promotional photo Udo Kier (born October 14, 1944 in Cologne, Germany) is a German actor. ...



Movies by Lars von Trier
The Element of Crime | Epidemic | Zentropa | Breaking the Waves | Idioterne * | Dancer in the Dark | Dogville | Manderlay | Wasington

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Epidemic is a 1987 film directed by Lars von Trier.
In epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people) is a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is expected, based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a...
Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film which tells the story of a paralyzed man who convinces his wife to go out and find men and bring them home and have sex with them, then tell him all of the details.
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