The element of crime
(2000, original release: 1984)

Fiction

DVD

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DVD/DRAMA/ELEMENT

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PUBLISHED
[Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, [2000]
©2000
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
0780023277 ELE090
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.85:1)

The story of an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer preying on young girls. Set in Germany, the film is shot in sepia tones with brilliant blue flashes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1984

Special features: Widescreen digital transfer, enhanced for 16x9 televisions ; Stig Björkman's 52 minute docutmentary, Tranceformer: a portrait of Lars von Trier (1997) with optional English subtitles ; theatrical trailer

Screenplay, Lars von Trier & Niels Vørsel ; editor and sound editor, Tómas Gislason ; music composed and conducted by Bo Holten ; translated by Walraut Andersen ; performed by Sonja Kehler ; produced by Per Holst Filmproduktion A/S in association with the Danish Film Institute

Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Meme Lai, Jerold Welss, Ahmed El Shenawi, Astrid Henning-Jensen, János Herskó, Preben Leerdorff-Rye, Gotha Anderson, Lars von Trier

Not Rated

DVD

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

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