The second of Trier's films known collectively as the Europa trilogy. The other two films in the trilogy are The Element of Crime (1984) and Europa (1991). Co-written by Niels Vørsel, the film focuses on the screenwriting process. Vørsel and von Trier play themselves, coming up with a last-minute script for a producer. This story is intercut with scenes from the film they write, in which von Trier plays a renegade doctor trying to cure a modern-day epidemic. In an ironic twist, the doctor discovers that he himself has been spreading the virus.

Movie rating: 6.0 / 10 (5942)

Directed by: Lars von Trier - Niels Vorsel

Writer credits: Lars von Trier - Niels Vørsel

Cast: Allan De Waal - Ole Ernst - Michael Gelting - Colin Gilder - Svend Ali Hamann

AKA: Epidemia

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