Fleisch
Spare Parts
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Wolf Roth, Jutta Speidel
Fleisch | Spare Parts by Rainer Erler
BRD 1979, Retrospective
© Fernsehjuwelen
Bob Cunningham, Jutta Speidel
Fleisch | Spare Parts by Rainer Erler
BRD 1979, Retrospective
© Fernsehjuwelen
Christoph Lindert, Jutta Speidel, Wolf Roth, Charlotte Kerr
Fleisch | Spare Parts by Rainer Erler
BRD 1979, Retrospective
© Fernsehjuwelen
German newlyweds Mike and Monica check into a seedy motel in New Mexico. Their honeymoon is rudely interrupted when two paramedics abduct Mike in their ambulance, while Monica manages to escape to the desert highway. A truck driver named Bill agrees to help her find Mike. The journey takes the two to New York – and on the trail of an international gang trafficking in illegal organs that is holding Mike captive in a clinic. Monica and Bill bravely make their way inside …
“How much is anyone worth? What would you pay for a man?” Like a leitmotif, the title song and various iterations of “flesh” – whether during lovemaking, or as frozen “parts” or dog food – permeate this film by Rainer Erler, which launched the concept of a “science thriller” in Germany. Woven with threads of a western or a road movie, in 1979 Spare Parts created a buzz and, due to an acute shortage of donor organs in Germany, a fierce public debate. That threatened to drown out something Erler deemed important, the “spark of humanity in an apparently inhumane world” and his romantic tale of love and willingness to make sacrifices.
“How much is anyone worth? What would you pay for a man?” Like a leitmotif, the title song and various iterations of “flesh” – whether during lovemaking, or as frozen “parts” or dog food – permeate this film by Rainer Erler, which launched the concept of a “science thriller” in Germany. Woven with threads of a western or a road movie, in 1979 Spare Parts created a buzz and, due to an acute shortage of donor organs in Germany, a fierce public debate. That threatened to drown out something Erler deemed important, the “spark of humanity in an apparently inhumane world” and his romantic tale of love and willingness to make sacrifices.
With
- Jutta Speidel
- Wolf Roth
- Herbert Herrmann
- Charlotte Kerr
- Christoph Lindert
- Bob Cunningham
- Tedi Altice
- Ben Zeller
- Ronnie Lee Williams
Crew
| Director | Rainer Erler |
| Screenplay | Rainer Erler |
| Cinematography | Wolfgang Grasshoff |
| Editing | Hilwa von Boro |
| Music | Eugen Thomass |
| Production Design | Paul Kinslow, Martin Johnson |
| Producer | Rainer Erler |
Additional information
DCP: Filmjuwelen