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The Death King
| Original title:
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Der Todesking
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| Czech titile:
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Smrti král
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| Country and year:
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West Germany 1989
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| Director:
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Jörg Buttgereit
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| Running time:
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76 minutes
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| Screening format:
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HD
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| Version:
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German / English subtitles / Czech subtitles
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| Screening:
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Friday 6th March 2020 from 22:30
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| Vennue:
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Cinema Aero, Prague
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| Admission:
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150,- Kč
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| Note:
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Only persons 18 years of age and older will be admitted to the screening.
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The incurable romantic and necrophile Jörg “Captain Berlin” Buttgereit makes a triumphant return to the silver screen of cinema Aero to defile it with his most accomplished feature. Unlike the Nekromantik movies, that we have both already screened, The Death King isn't overtly graphic, but the subject matter and underground aesthetics take centre stage in creating a suffocating atmosphere of morbidity and utter despair. Split into seven episodes on the theme of suicide and violent death – interspaced with loving close-ups of a real decomposing corpse – the film is an experience in mortality. After all, this is the Death King. He causes people not to want to live anymore. Can you look him in the eyes?
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