The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertize, and help his handicap brother Willi Hauser. He joins a secret fraternity of doctors, under the leadership of Prof. Muller-LaRousse, who is researching the use of bionic muscles in human beings without any ethics or respect to the laws. The team is also volunteer to the experiences, and is under investigation of Paula Henning. When Jo gets close to a Filipino nurse, and becomes addicted in the drugs used in experience, he realizes the truth hidden in the methods used by the secret society in the development of science.
Practical Effects
Gooey bionic muscle effects that aged like milk
Costume
Those ridiculous secret society robes, absolutely unhinged
Director
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Barnaby Metschurat
Jo Hauser
Herbert Knaup
Professor Müller-LaRousse
Heike Makatsch
Viktoria
Roman Knižka
Hagen
Wotan Wilke Möhring
Gregor
Franka Potente
Paula Henning
Hanno Koffler
Willi Hauser
Felix Kramer
Kurt
Sebastian Nakajew
Wulf
Rosie Alvarez
Lee
Joachim Bißmeier
Dr. Schinder
Boris Pietsch
Manni
Rosel Zech
Dr. Bamberg
August Diehl
Benny
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the brief early-2000s wave of German horror trying to replicate Hollywood slashers with extra nihilism.
Stefan Ruzowitzky later won an Oscar for The Counterfeiters—maybe he was working through something here.
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