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About this movie

Genres:
Mystery & Suspense
Language:
English
Running time:
1:39:34
Partner rating:
R
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Benno Fuermann
  2. Anna Loos Gretchen
  3. Franka Potente Paula Henning
  4. Benno Fürmann Hein
  5. Sebastian Blomberg Caspar
  6. Holger Speckhahn Phil
  7. Herbert Knaup
  8. Heike Makatsch
  9. August Diehl
  10. Traugott Buhre Prof. Grombek
  11. Rüdiger Vogler Dr. Henning
  12. Oliver Wnuk Ludwig
  13. Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey David
  14. Andreas Gunther Franz
  15. Antonia Cacilia Holfelder Gabi
  16. Werner Dissel Paulas Grobvater
  17. Gennadiy Vengerov Praparator
  18. Thomas Meinhardt Professor in Munchen
  19. Simon Schwarz Junger Mann
  20. Alexander Liegl Helfer

Directors

  1. Stefan Ruzowitzky

Producers

  1. Jakob Claussen
  2. Thomas Woebke
  3. Andrea Willson
  4. Thomas Wobke

Writers

  1. Stefan Ruzowitzky

Anatomy

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A determined medical student uncovers shady goings on during a prestigious summer anatomy course in this German thriller. When Paula Henning (Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) learns that she's been accepted to a highly competitive internship at a Heidelberg research institution, she's ecstatic. The daughter of a simple family doctor, she prefers to model herself after her terminally ill grandfather, who was once dean of the same Heidelberg university. Stern lecturer Prof. Grombek (Traugott Buhre) promises that half the students won't be around when the course ends; his prediction turns out to be true, but it's not because of the brutal exams. It seems that a group of renegade doctors is performing dissections on unwilling, still-living victims, which helps explain the artful laboratory in which plasticized human remains are lovingly displayed. Paula stumbles onto this plot when a recent acquaintance turns up on her dissection table, his blood the consistency of rubber. Studious to the extreme, Paula investigates his death with scientific determination -- despite the flirtations of handsome fellow student Caspar (Sebastian Blomberg) and the feel-good urgings of Gretchen (Anna Loos), her sexually promiscuous but utterly brilliant roommate. Just as Paula is preparing to expose the existence of the Anti-Hippocratic Society, a Nazi-affiliated group of medical malcontents, Gretchen falls prey to their extreme methods. Soon Paula, too, is in danger of becoming just another addition to the display case. Extremely popular in its native country, Anatomie was dubbed into English for American release under the title Anatomy. A sequel was in production as of 2002.

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