The Element Of Crime (Lars von Trier, 1984)

A detective plagued by headaches goes to a hypnotist and relives his investigation into a serial killer case in Lars von Trier's first feature, The Element of Crime. Fisher (Michael Elphick), a retired policeman, returns to Europe at the behest of his mentor, Osborne (Esmond Knight of The Red Shoes). Osborne, the author of an influential textbook called The Element of Crime, has given up his investigation into the Lotto Murders, in which a number of lottery ticket salesgirls have been killed and mutilated. The new chief of police, Kramer (former Benny Hill Show regular Jerold Wells), is a trigger-happy lunatic who objects to Fisher's methodical approach to crime solving. Osborne, meanwhile, seemingly losing his grip on reality, insists that the killer, Harry Grey, died in a car crash. Using Osborne's methods, Fisher tries to delve into the mind of Grey by following the path of a trip the killer took three years earlier, while Osborne was investigating him. Along the way, Fisher hooks up with a prostitute, Kim (Me Me Lai), who also has a link to Grey. As he gets closer to unraveling the mystery, Fisher finds himself taking on more and more aspects of the killer's persona. Von Trier uses a traditional film noir style voice-over, while visually, his film is a monochromatic sepia tone with occasional flashes of fluorescent blue. General Complete name : The Element of Crime.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format/Family : RIFF File size : 1.37 GiB PlayTime : 1h 43mn Bit rate : 1886 Kbps StreamSize : 6.60 MiB Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release) Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release IAS1 : English Video #0 Codec : XviD Codec/Family : MPEG-4 Codec/Info : XviD project Codec profile : Streaming Video Profile/Level 1 Codec settings/PacketBitStream : No Codec settings/BVOP : Yes Codec settings/QPel : No Codec settings/GMC : 0 Codec settings/Matrix : Custom PlayTime : 1h 43mn Bit rate : 1691 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 400 pixels Display Aspect ratio : 16/9 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Resolution : 8 bits Chroma : 4:2:0 Interlacement : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.244 StreamSize : 1.22 GiB Audio #1 Codec : AC3 PlayTime : 1h 43mn Bit rate : 191 Kbps Bit rate mode : CBR Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : L R Sampling rate : 48 KHz Video0 delay : 14ms StreamSize : 142 MiB IMDB: tt0087280 English audio; English, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles Criterion Collection rip, posted at Karagarga by vanjah (Extras stripped)

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clumsyshadow22 (2012-05-19)

Brilliant. Thanks for the upload. Great quality video and audio 10/10 !!

rahlo10 (2012-12-02)

thank you

PTheus (2013-08-17)

English subtitles from the release with HI removed and italics added. Some corrections as well:

LillaIgelkotten (2014-02-25)

Great! Thank you
By any chance, do you have the movie "Epidemic"? is the second one fo Trier's "Europa Trilogy" and it seems that you cannot find it here