Schramm (film)

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Schramm
Directed by Jörg Buttgereit
Produced by Manfred O. Jelinski
Written by Jörg Buttgereit
Franz Rodenkirchen
Starring Florian Koerner von Gustorf
Monika M.
Micha Brendel
Carolina Harnisch
Music by Max Müller
Gundula Schmitz
Editing by Jörg Buttgereit
Manfred O. Jelinski
Release date(s) 1993
Running time 65 min.
Language German

Schramm is a 1993 German horror film directed by Jörg Buttgereit. It tells the story of a person that has been known in the media as the so-called lipstick killer. The tagline of the movie is : "Today I am dirty, but tomorrow I'll be just dirt".

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Lothar Schramm is a cab driver living door to door with the young prostitute Marianne. Schramm’s sex life is seriously damaged and his social life is inexistent. He makes love to inflatable plastic dolls, phantasizes about vaginas with teeth, nails his foreskin to the table and dreams of a visit to the dentist who extracts him an eyeball. When a young couple rings at his door to try and convert him to their religion, he lets them in, only to murder them and take photos of their bodies. When Marianne is invited by some men to a villa outside the town, she asks him to take her there the next day. He accepts and she invites him to lunch, ignoring his desire to make love to her. He drugs her and gets her to his apartment where he undresses her and makes photos. Then he takes her back to her apartment. The next day Marianne rings at his door but he does not open. He has fallen from a ladder while painting his walls and his blood mingles with the paint on the floor. The next thing we see is Marianne in the villa outside of town, dressed up like a little girl, bound and gagged on a chair, helpless victim to her eccentric clients.

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