Denmark
1984
104 minutes
Color
1.85:1
Danish
80
Lars von Trier’s stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for young girls. Influenced equally by Hitchcock and science fiction, von Trier (Europa, Breaking the Waves, The Idiots) boldly reinvents expressionist style for his own cinematic vision of a post-apocalyptic world. Shot in shades of sepia, with occasional, startling flashes of bright blue, The Element of Crime (Forbrydelsens Element) combines dark mystery and operatic sweep to yield a pure celluloid nightmare.
| Fisher | Michael Elphick |
| Osborne | Esmond Knight |
| Kim | Meme Lai |
| Kramer | Jerold Wells |
| Therapist | Ahmed El Shenawi |
| Housekeeper | Astrid Henning-Jensen |
| Coroner | János Herskó |
| Grandfather | Preben Leerdorff-Rye |
| Judge | Gotha Andersen |
| Schmuck of ages | Lars von Trier |
| Director | Lars von Trier |
| Screenplay | Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel |
| Cinematography | Tom Elling |
| Production Design | Peter Hølmark |
| Special effects | Peter Hølmark |
| Editing | Tómas Gislason |
| Sound effects | Tómas Gislason |
| Music | Bo Holten |
| Performed by | Ars Nova and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra |
| Executive producer | Per Holst |
If you’ve been wondering how on earth Lars von Trier would follow up Antichrist, it may not surprise you that for his next movie, he may be leaving Earth behind altogether. The Danish bad boy made an official announcement today that he would be turning to science fiction for Planet Melancholia...
The very first sequence in The Element of Crime sets the tone not just for this haunting film but for the entire career of Danish wunderkind Lars von Trier. An Egyptian psychiatrist gazes down into the camera, addressing a detective named Fisher who has lost his...
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