Hamburg’s health authorities register an alarming phenomenon: dozens of people are found dead without an evident cause, in the position of an embryo. As casualties skyrocket, a series of torturing questions arise as to mysterious disease’s nature and origin. Galloping panic and hard-core quarantine measures transform Germany into a state of terror and confusion. A raw, poetic, and gruesomely timely pandemic film that reshapes all the conventions of its genre, crafting a world of existential despair.
The Hamburg Syndrome
Die Hamburger Krankheit
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- Direction: Peter Fleischmann
- Script: Peter Fleischmann, Otto Jägersberg, Roland Topor
- Cinematography: Colin Mounier
- Editing: Susan Zinowsky
- Sound: Yves Zlotnika, Karl Heinz Frank
- Music: Jean-Michel Jarre
- Actors: Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Carline Seiser, Tilo Prückner, Ulrich Wildgruber, Rainer Langhans
- Production: Hallelujah Films, Bioskop Film, Coleidon Film, Terra Filmkunst, ZDF, SND
- Producers: Peter Fleischmann, Willi Segler
- Co-producers: Michel Gast, Lothar H. Krischer
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: West Germany, France
- Production Year: 1979
- Duration: 105'
- Contact: DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
- Awards/Distinctions: Best Director – Myfest IFF 1980
Peter Fleischmann
Peter Fleischmann studied at the German Institute of Film and Television in Munich and the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC) in Paris. His debut film, The Hunters and the Hunted, was an international success, while his sophomore feature, Havoc, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Fleischman collaborated many times with the renowned screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, among which the film Weak Spot, based on the famous novel by Antonis Samarakis.
Filmography
1972 Havoc | Das Unheil
1975 Weak Spot | Der Dritte Grad
1979 The Hamburg Syndrome | Die Hamburger Krankheit
1989 Hard to Be a God | Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein
