Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.
Production
Heidelberg anatomy theater is gloriously grotesque production design
Acting
Franka Potente runs screaming through tunnels again, still iconic
Practical Effects
Dissection scenes use real medical specimens, absolutely cursed
Director
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Franka Potente
Paula
Benno Fürmann
Hein
Anna Loos
Gretchen
Sebastian Blomberg
Caspar
Holger Speckhahn
Phil
Traugott Buhre
Prof. Grombek
Oliver Wnuk
Ludwig
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey
David
Andreas Guenther
Franz
Antonia Holfelder
Gabi
Rüdiger Vogler
Dr. Henning
Barbara Magdalena Ahren
Frau Henning
Werner Dissel
Paulas Großvater
Gennadi Vengerov
Präparator
Thomas Meinhardt
Professor in München
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Launched the short-lived 'German horror renaissance' alongside Resident Evil, though it bombed domestically because Germans found medical horror too close to home.
The 'Anatomia Humani Corporis' textbook prop is a real 17th century medical text; the production borrowed it from Heidelberg University's actual collection.
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