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baler movie ekta!

Der Todesking is put together as a seven part series looking at death, but not in a Faces of Death kind of way; thanks to the grittiness of the camerawork and the use of non-superstar actors, this movie, as is the case with his others from around the same time, actually looks pretty real. We open with a segment showing a well-dressed man in his apartment writing letters. He calls his boss and quits his job. He cleans his apartment, feeds his fish, washes his dishes, and it would seem that this is just another Monday (p.s. the segments are each named for the days of the week). He shaves, undresses, gets in the bath, and takes handful after handful of pills. We watch as he sinks lower into the water, his eyes glazed, and the most artistic spilling of vomit into bathwater you’ve ever seen. Yep, this is definitely a Jorg Buttgereit film.