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In 1999, there is an outbreak of suicides in Berlin. While some of the suicides involve a person just killing themselves, other cause several casualties. With this "epidemic" causing hundreds of deaths, panic starts to creep in both sides of the Berlin Wall. In West Berlin, Lt. Claus Hartman, whose
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wife killed herself years before the outbreak after finding out she was pregnant, suspects that the suicides are really caused by a lone madman, Dr. Marsfeldt, who is using a form of mass hypnosis. His investigations lead him to a woman whose image is being used to manipulate the populace.
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is something of a mishmash. But it's a mostly engaging mishmash with Chabrol operating in a satirically sinister mode that should come as no surprise to his devotees... In contrast to many American genre pictures, the problems with
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has not yet come down); the stars — including the still fetching Jennifer Beals and the usually cool Alan Bates (doing what seems like an eccentric imitation of
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is an absorbing and even amusing thriller with brains--even if it does take more brains than should be necessary to follow its helter-skelter plot.
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stem from aiming too high rather than too low... ostly to Chabrol's credit, the going never gets boring, no matter how many times one views it.
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Claude Chabrol
Norbert Jacques
Alan Bates
Jennifer Beals
Jan Niklas
Jean Rabier
Mekong Delta
Paul Hindemith
crime film
Claude Chabrol
Fritz Lang
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
Mabuse der Spieler
Norbert Jacques
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Alan Bates
Jennifer Beals
Jan Niklas
Andrew McCarthy
Hanns Zischler
Benoît Régent
Alexander Radszun
Daniela Poggi
William Berger
Michael Degen
Wolfgang Preiss
Jean Benguigui

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