Fleisch (film)
- Jutta Speidel: Monica
- Wolf Roth: Bill ( voiced by Manfred Lehmann)
- Herbert Herrmann: Mike
- Charlotte Kerr: Dr. Jackson
- Christoph Lindert: Dr. Jackson's assistant
- Bob Cunningham: Sergeant
- Tedi Altice: Motel landlady
- Ben Zeller: Paramedic
- Ronnie Lee Williams: Singer
Meat is a thriller directed by Rainer Erler in 1979, which takes up the theme of organ trafficking. The film was produced by the Pentagramma ZDF, the first television was on 16 June 1979. ProSieben in 2007 was for a remake of the same name, by the director Oliver Schmitz.
Action
The newly wed couple Mike, an American, and Monica, a German who study together in Princeton make during their honeymoon in Las Cruces in the U.S. state of New Mexico in a cheap motel rest. After a lovers taking a stroll, is overwhelmed on the Mike and kidnapped by paramedics in an ambulance. Monica can still poorly clothed just escape and is pursued by the ambulance through the steppe. The manager of the motel seems with the kidnappers to cahoots Monica and tries to stall. They informed the kidnappers, whereupon Monica flees again and on a nearby highway leading past a truck stops whose driver Bill takes her. This believes the frightened Monica their crazy story not initially, but soon both take each other more confidence, and Bill wants to help her in the search for Mike. They are an internationally branched syndicate on the track, which operates organ trafficking on a large scale. In a special clinic in Roswell organs of kidnapped, drugged tourists are taken without permission and sold by Dr. Jackson and her assistant for a lot of money on organ banks solvent patients with organ defects.
Background
The shooting took place in New York, New Mexico and Texas at original locations in the United States. Also filmed by Michael Crichton American thriller Coma on the book by Robin Cook had in 1978 dealt with the topic of organ donation / organ trade in a similar way.
Flesh peeled his time in sections of the audience a nasty shock and subsequently led to vehement protests from the medical profession, the suspected propaganda and wild prejudices looked nourished. The film, which ran in cinemas in over 120 countries, is now considered a " classic of socially critical television film of those years and a milestone in the work of the great disaster prophets Rainer Erler. "
Reviews
" Erler illustrated these fears towards this medical technology, it brings out of the realm of the unconscious. Films like these benefit the genuine possibilities of art, Possible so precise imagine that it takes on the character of reality for people. So to speak playfully so viewers can anticipate situations that simulate decisions that may demand a reality to them later. Who wants to curtail this possibility with strongly worded protests, blocking the fiction in the here and now and making them redundant. "
" Erler staged for television movie given away by his imaginative staging and poor be too constructed screenplay all possibilities between a committed social criticism and exciting action entertainment. "