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Corpse Fucking Art: The Films of Jorg BUTTEGEREIT

Captain Berlin

Jörg BUTTGEREIT

Germany1981 15minmin Beta Color

Synopsis

One of BUTTGEREIT’s earliest forays into cinema, this is a Superman parody. Captain Berlin, the super hero of Berlin, rids the world of evils. Featuring a great soundtrack by new wave band Peter Synthetic. (Johannes SCHÖNHERR)

Diretor

Jörg BUTTGEREIT

Jörg BUTTGEREIT was born in 1963 in Berlin. Since the age of 14, he directed short films using Super 8mm, and made a controversial debut in 1987 with Nekromantik, a film about a love between a corpse and human. He then went on to make such films as Nekromantik II (1991), and Schramm(1993), pleasing hardcore audiences all over the world with his regular theme of necrophilia and death. BUTTGEREIT is a DJ, and is the first person who wrote a book about Japanese monster films in Germany.