Item Details
The element of crime [videorecording]
Janus Films ; Per Holst Filmproduction.
- Format
- DVD; Video
- Summary
- The story of an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer preying on young girls. Set in Germany, the film is shot in sepia tones with brilliant blue flashes.
- Director
- Lars von Trier
- Performer(s)
- Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Meme Lai, Jerold Welss, Ahmed El Shenawi, Astrid Henning-Jensen, János Herskó, Preben Leerdorff-Rye, Gotha Anderson, Lars von Trier.
- Release Date
- 1984
- Run Time
- 104 min.
- Language
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Notes
- Widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.85:1).
- Videodisc release of a 1984 motion picture.
- Special features: Widescreen digital transfer, enhanced for 16x9 televisions ; Stig Björkman's 52 minute docutmentary, Tranceformer: a portrait of Lars von Trier (1997) with optional English subtitles ; theatrical trailer.
- Variant title
- Title on container:
- Lars von Trier's The element of crime
- Danish title:
- Forbrydelsens element
- Related title
- Tranceformer.
- Series
- Criterion collection
- Classic collection
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)
- Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
- Series statement
- Criterion collection 80 Classic collection
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 80. Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
- ISBN(s)
- 0780023277,
- Credits
- Director, Lars von Trier ; executive producer, Per Holst ; screenplay, Lars von Trier & Niels Vørsel ; editor and sound editor, Tómas Gislason ; music composed and conducted by Bo Holten ; translated by Walraut Andersen ; performed by Sonja Kehler ; produced by Per Holst Filmproduktion A/S in association with the Danish Film Institute.
- Published
- [Irvington, N.Y.?] :Criterion Collection,c2000.
- Publisher no.
- ELE090 Criterion Collection
- Related resources
- The Internet Movie Database Summary and Reviews
- Description
- 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD.
- Technical details
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