Schramm
by Jörg Buttgereit
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Actor: Carolina Harnisch, Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Micha Brendel, Monika M., Xaver SchwarzenbergerDirector: Jörg Buttgereit
Brand: Ryko Distribution
Editor: Franz Rodenkirchen
Writer: Franz Rodenkirchen
Cinematographer: Manfred O. Jelinski
Editor: Manfred O. Jelinski
Producer: Manfred O. Jelinski
Editor: Jörg Buttgereit
Writer: Jörg Buttgereit
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 65 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Barrel
Movie Reviews of Schramm
Movie Review: Sick, Twisted and Surreal film from the director of Nekromantik
Summary: 5 Stars
What would you do if someone came to your door and asked if you if you found Jesus? If you were Lothar Schramm you would invite them in and kill them after offering them a beverage. Yes folks this is the world of Schramm a 65 minute look into the bizzare world that only a shock meister like Jorg Buttergreit could come up with.
The film is basically the last 24 hours of the so called "Lipstick Killer" Lothar Schramm who while trying to clean the blood from the walls of his latest kill falls of a ladder and dies in the beginning. The film explores his relationship with a prostitute who has a new, rich, old, and perverse client that lives next door to him and has loud sex that can be heard through Lothar's air duct.
The film has realy not much of a plot structure, the main plot about Lothar and his relationship with the prostitute is interspersed with scence of a man and woman dancing to a haunting score in a smokey dimly lit area,and Lothar's own delusions including a Vagina like creature with teeth and the loss of his own leg and a scene of Lothar driving several nails into his foreskin on a table in full view of the camera.
In reality Mr Buttergreit is trying to show the mind of a killer not the actions unlike films like Henry Portait of a Serial Killer where the actions are shown. We are only shown one murder, the rest is the psychosocial interactions and delusions. This is a case study of the mind not a film record of the murders of a killer. In saying this the film is relatively short going over an hour by only five minutes but within that short time frame you see the realty of a damaged human mind.
Like other shock films like the Guinea Pig series out of Japan and Russia's Philosophy of a Knife this film tries to test the limits of the viewer, how much can you stand before you shut off the dvd player and put in Snow White to calm you down. Hollywood is now trying to catch up to its european and asian counterparts with films like Hostel and Saw but real shock cinema is from overseas as these films show. Hostel's violence is tame compared to this, I doubt the MPAA would allow a director here to show a man nailing his foreskin to a table in full view of the camera nor would I expect them to show a man having sex with then cleaning a blow up doll or ejaculating on magazines. This is shock in its pure form. Few directors in the states have done it but some have tried.
If you are daring try this film on for size as well as Nekromantik, all the Guinea Pig films, and Philosophy of a Knife. If you can sit through it without feeling some sort of disturbance then you have something wrong
Summary of Schramm
From the director of the infamous German cult classic Nekromantik.Official selection Midnight Movie Madness at the Toronto Film Festival (1994)Lothar Schramm (Florian Koerner von Gustorf) is dying face down in a pool of his own blood. Behind his closed eyes fractured memories repeat themselves again and again. He runs by the sea. He lusts after the whore (Monika M) across the hall. He staggers through life uncertainly. He kills.Schramm is the story of the notorious Lipstick Killer Lothar Schramm s last days on earth. Revealed in a series of tightly constructed flashbacks the film offers an unflinching look into the mind of a serial killer. Uncompromising in its depictions of violence and perversion Schramm is a poetic masterpiece guaranteed to make you squirm.Special Features include: New 1.33:1 digital transfer mastered from producer Manfred Jelinski s original 16mm negative German language in stereo and mono with new removable English subtitles Full running audio commentary by director J rg Buttgereit and co-author Franz Rodenkirchen Second audio commentary by actors Florian Koerner von Gustorf and Monika M The Making of Schramm 35 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage Mein Papi and Captain Berlin early Buttgereit Super 8 shorts subtitled in English for the first time Die Neue Zeit a music clip from Mutter directed by J rg Buttgereit An extensive gallery of over 100 stills from the collection of J rg Buttgereit and Manfred Jelinski Theatrical trailers for Nekromantik Der Todesking Nekromantik 2 and Schramm Liner notes by J rg Buttgereit and Buttgereit biographer David Kerekes Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition Much much more!System Requirements:Run Time: 161 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 690816601098 Manufacturer No: BEDVD010Similar DVD Movies
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