TY - GEN AU - Trier, Lars von. AU - Michael Elphick AU - Esmond Knight AU - Me Me Lai AU - Jerold Wells AU - Ahmed El Shenawi AU - Astrid HenningJensen AU - János Herskó AU - Stig Larsson AU - Harry Harper AU - Roman Moszkowicz AU - Lars von Trier AU - Frederik Casby AU - Duke Addabayo AU - Jon Bang Carlsen AU - Leif Magnusson TI - Forbrydelsens element AV - DVD 004226 PY - 1984/// CY - Denmark PB - Det Danske Filminstitut KW - Thriller KW - Drama N2 - Fischer, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo... ; Fischer, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and role model, author of a treatise called "The Element of Crime", asks him to solve a series of murders involving lottery ticket sellers. Guided by the theories put forth in the book, Fischer retraces the steps of a suspect, Harry Grey, as recorded in a three-year-old police surveillance report. A dark film set in a post-somethingorother Europe with unique visual atmosphere and kind of cult-movie status (in Europe at least) UR - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087280 ER -