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Actors: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Anatomy |
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ANATOMY (Anatomie) is a German movie written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky in 1999.
Paula Henning is a very gifted medicine student who's got the opportunity to take summer anatomy lessons of the famous Professor Grombek at the Heidelberg university in Germany. She fortuitously finds out about the activities of an antihippocratic secret society of students and schoolmasters who are carrying out wild experiments on the corpses. Hein, a young member of this society, likes to practice dissection on living subjects and will murder Gretchen, Paula's friend, who's cheated on him, in this way. Hein is expelled from the society, goes on with his experiments and is now after Paula who has decided to go to the police.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Anatomy |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Medical Thriller?
Yes
Medical Plotlets:
- wild experiments on people
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/butch/lez (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- student
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
Misc setting
- moving train
- scientific labs
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- seeing nude male butt
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 ()
Kind of violence:
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- frying (electrocuted)
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- German
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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