''Fleisch'' (international title: ''Spare Parts'')''Fleisch''
IMDb.com; accessed 9 May 2017. is a German

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horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...

directed by . Released in 1979, the film focuses on

organ trafficking Organ trade (also known as Red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation.(Carney, Scott. 2011. "The Red Market." Wired 19, no. 2: 112–1. Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts.) Accor ...

. ''Fleisch'' has been recognized as a

cult film A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase which forms an elaborate subculture, members of which engage ...

Plot

A newly married couple is spending their honeymoon in the

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. Suddenly, the unbelievable happens: the husband is kidnapped and assaulted by paramedics in an ambulance. The wife escapes at the last minute, and is picked up by a truck driver. Together they embark on the search for the kidnapped husband, they encounter a dangerous and perfectly organized syndicate that supplies the world's wealthy customers in organs of young, healthy people.

Cast

Jutta Speidel Jutta Speidel (; born 26 March 1954) is a German actress. She had her first television role at the age of 15. Jutta Speidel appeared in ''Schulmadchen Report 1'' (1970), which was directed by Ernst Hofbauer and produced by Wolf C. Hartwig. She ac ...

- Monica *

Wolf Roth Wolf Roth (born August 30, 1944) is a German theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a liv ...

- Bill * - Mike *

Charlotte Kerr Charlotte Kerr (29 May 1927 – 28 December 2011) was a German director, film producer, actress, writer and journalist. She first performed on stage in Fritz Kortner’s version of Schiller’s ''Don Carlos'' in 1951. She became well known fo ...

- Dr. Jackson

Production

It was produced for

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

and was telecasted on the 16 June 1979 on German television, the cast of the film includes

and

Remake

The television station

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narrated the , which was directed by

Oliver Schmitz Oliver Schmitz (born 1960) is a South African film director and screenwriter. His film ''Mapantsula'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film ''Life, Above All'' was also screened in the U ...

, the movie starred

Sebastian Ströbel Sebastian Ströbel (born 2 February 1977) is a German film and TV actor. He is best known for his performance as Jan Brenner in the TV Series ''Countdown – Die Jagd beginnt ''Countdown – Die Jagd beginnt'' ("Countdown – The Chase Begins ...

and Theresa Scholze.

Books

Erler has the screenplay of ''Fleisch'' processed in a novel, which originally released from Goldmann Verlag, the Shayol Verlag released in 2006, a new revised edition.''Fleisch'' – Rainer Erler
buch.de; accessed 9 May 2017.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0079160 1979 films 1979 horror films 1979 television films 1970s thriller films Films about organ trafficking Films set in West Germany Films set in New Mexico Films set in New York (state) 1970s German-language films German-language television shows German horror television films German thriller television films West German films 1970s German films ZDF original programming