Nekromantik 2

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Stuart McLean

Return of the Loving Dead
Certificate: 18
Running Time: 102 Mins
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Release Date: 07/12/2015
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
Monika isn’t like other young women. She shares her small flat with Rob, a recently disinterred corpse which serves as the object of her affections. But then she meets good-natured Mark, and soon finds herself torn between the prospect of a ‘normal’ life with a living, breathing partner and her overwhelming desire for her rotting bed-fellow.

Once prosecuted in its native Germany for “glorifying violence”, Jörg Buttgereit’s follow-up to his ground-breaking Nekromantik is just as shocking as its reputation would suggest. But it’s also a profoundly moving (if decidedly twisted) love story, and a thought-provoking meditation on death – that most mysterious aspect of the human condition.

Special Features:
3-DISC DIRECTOR-APPROVED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
•New High Definition transfer approved by director Jörg Buttgereit
•High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
•Original Stereo 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
•Optional English subtitles
•Limited Edition packaging featuring new artwork by Gilles Vranckx
•Individually-numbered #/3,000 Certificate
•Set of 5 exclusive “polaroid” postcards
•Soundtrack CD
•Limited Edition 100-page book

DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] & DISC 2 [DVD] – NEKROMANTIK 2
•Audio commentary with Buttgereit, co-writer Franz Rodenkirchen and actors Monika M. and Mark Reeder
•Introduction to the film with Buttgereit, Reeder, Monika M. and producer Manfred Jelinski
•Masters of Life and Death – a brand new documentary looking at the film’s production and release history, featuring interviews with Buttgereit, Reeder, Monika M. and Jelinski
•City of the Loving Dead – a walking tour of some of the original Berlin locations with Reeder and Jelinski
•Necropolis: Jörg Buttgereit’s Berlin – film scholar Dr. Marcus Stiglegger on the significance of the German capital as the backdrop for Nekromantik 2
•The Making of Nekromantik 2 – vintage documentary viewable with two different audio tracks: an English track comprising audio interviews with Buttgereit, Rodenkirchen and Monika M., and a German track featuring radio interviews with Buttgereit and Rodenkirchen, with optional English subtitles
•Nekro Waltz: The Music of Nekromantik 2 – Reeder discusses his work on the film’s score
•Outtakes Reel
•Nekromantik 2 Livekonzert – footage from the 20th anniversary Nekromantik 2 concert, with Monika M. and friends performing the live score
•Nekromantik 2 Livekonzert – the complete 20-track audio recording of the concert [BD/DVD-ROM content]
•Two Buttgereit short films: Bloody Excess in the Leader’s Bunker (Blutige Exzesse im Führerbunker, 1982) and A Moment of Silence at the Grave of Ed Gein (2012)
•Two Buttgereit-directed music videos: ‘Rise Up’ by Die Krupps (1997), starring Monika M., and ‘Die Frau in der Musik’ by Stereo Total (2007)
•Complete collection of Buttgereit feature film trailers
•Extensive image gallery

DISC 3 [CD] – NEKROMANTIK 2 SOUNDTRACK – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
•24-track CD featuring the complete Nekromantik 2 score

100-PAGE BOOK– ‘ANATOMY OF DESIRE’ – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
•Exclusive perfect-bound book featuring new writing from Electric Sheep editor Virginie Sélavy, writer Kier-La Janisse and others, as well as a new translation of the article submitted to the German government as part of the Nekromantik 2 prosecution case, all illustrated with new artwork and original archive stills