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Overview

User Rating:
5.2/10   1,019 votes
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Director:

Martin Weisz

Writer (WGA):

T.S. Faull (written by)

Contact:

View company contact information for Grimm Love on IMDbPro.

Release Date:

2009 (USA) more

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller more

Tagline:

Inspired By the True Story That Shocked A Nation more

Plot:

In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis... more | add synopsis

Awards:

9 wins & 1 nomination more

NewsDesk:
(12 articles)

One-Page Screenplay: Ts Faull's Throat Babies
 (From Movieline. 13 July 2009, 3:45 PM, PDT)

Ban lifted on German cannibal movie
 (From digitalspy. 27 May 2009, 5:47 AM, PDT)

User Comments:

Disgusting result of a destroyed society more (9 total)


Cast

  (Credited cast)

Keri Russell ... Katie Armstrong

Thomas Kretschmann ... Oliver Hartwin
Thomas Huber ... Simon Grombeck
Rainier Meissner ... Young Oliver
Angelika Bartsch ... Viktoria
Alexander Martschewski ... Rudy
Nils Dommning ... Karl

Marcus Lucas ... Felix
Pascal Andres ... Young Simon
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Helga Bellinghausen ... Simon's Mom
Sigrid Burkholder ... Mourner 1
Tatjana Clasing ... Hanna
Stefan Gebelhoff ... Simon's Dad
Jonas Gruber ... Rainer
Bojan Heyn ... Bully

Nikolai Kinski ... Otto Hauser
Renate Naujoks ... House Wife
Valerie Niehaus ... Margit
Jörg Reimers ... Oliver's Dad
Dagmar Sachse ... Mourner 2

Sybille J. Schedwill ... Frau Schinder (as Sybille Schedwill)
Horst Scheel ... Prof. Zech (as Horst D. Scheel)

Pierre Shrady ... The principal

Anatole Taubman ... Eager Man

Axel Wedekind ... Domino
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story (Germany) (working title)
Grimm Love (USA) (new title)
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Runtime:

Germany:90 min | Argentina:86 min (DVD version)

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Filming Locations:

Germany


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Trivia:

3rd March 2006: The state court in Kassel upheld a complaint from Meiwes, 44, against the film Rohtenburg, which was due for release in Germany on 9 March. The court ruled that Meiwes' rights as an individual outweighed artistic freedom and that he should not become the object of a horror film. On May 26 2009, Germany's highest civil court overturned the ban, ruling that freedom of the arts took precedence over Meiwes' personality rights. The court also ruled that because the film didn't distort the well-known facts of the case, Meiwes' rights were not violated. The film was finally released in German cinemas on June 18 2009. more

Quotes:

[last lines]
Oliver Hartwin: [typing an email] Running out of flesh. Seeking for more!
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Movie Connections:

References Faces of Death (1978) more

Soundtrack:

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24 out of 107 people found the following comment useful.
Disgusting result of a destroyed society, 1 March 2006
2/10
Author: DReffects from Germany

After the promising first minutes of the movie which look like they where trying to build a serious profile behind the killings, the movie drifts to a simple and disgusting presentation of violence.

A movie made for perverts...

The acting is decent, the storyline is not. The entire plot focused on the student trying to understand the psyche of the killer is only based loosely on the facts, all leading to build up more shots with violence. Even so it may have happened that way - why would you make a movie that features the most disgusting things a human has done? Looked to me like the director and writer failed to find a clear statement for the film and therefore went down the easy way by producing a flick that thrives on pain and the scandal behind it to get recognition at the box office.

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