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Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg, Holger Speckhahn ... see more see more... , Traugott Buhre , Rüdiger Vogler , Oliver Wnuk , Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey , Andreas Günther , Antonia Cacilia Holfelder , Werner Dissel , Gennadiy Vengerov , Thomas Meinhardt , Simon Schwarz , Alexander Liegl , Martin Polcher , Christoph Hagen Dittmann , Berrin Alganer-Lenz , Angelika Sedlmeier , Ulrich Matschoss , Gerald Alexander Held , Karl Fridrich , Susanne Grabe , Johannes Nikolussi , Anna Brüggemann , Axel Weusten , Gabriel Bassale , Ralf Dietl , Oliver Engl , Uche Ishionwu , Michael Jank , Thomas Neumann , Armin Schlicht , Christoph Schmeiduch , Patrick Schmidt , Nico Schutz , Thijs van der Zee , Michael Wolfl , Herbert Knaup , Heike Makatsch , August Diehl

A determined medical student uncovers shady goings on during a prestigious summer anatomy course in this German thriller. When Paula Henning (Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) learns that she's been acce... read more read more...pted to a highly competitive internship at a Heidelberg research institution, she's ecstatic. The daughter of a simple family doctor, she prefers to model herself after her terminally ill grandfather, who was once dean of the same Heidelberg university. Stern lecturer Prof. Grombek (Traugott Buhre) promises that half the students won't be around when the course ends; his prediction turns out to be true, but it's not because of the brutal exams. It seems that a group of renegade doctors is performing dissections on unwilling, still-living victims, which helps explain the artful laboratory in which plasticized human remains are lovingly displayed. Paula stumbles onto this plot when a recent acquaintance turns up on her dissection table, his blood the consistency of rubber. Studious to the extreme, Paula investigates his death with scientific determination -- despite the flirtations of handsome fellow student Caspar (Sebastian Blomberg) and the feel-good urgings of Gretchen (Anna Loos), her sexually promiscuous but utterly brilliant roommate. Just as Paula is preparing to expose the existence of the Anti-Hippocratic Society, a Nazi-affiliated group of medical malcontents, Gretchen falls prey to their extreme methods. Soon Paula, too, is in danger of becoming just another addition to the display case. Extremely popular in its native country, Anatomie was dubbed into English for American release under the title Anatomy. A sequel was in production as of 2002. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Release Date: January 1, 2000

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DVD Release Date: April 3, 2001

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Flixster Reviews (300)

  • flixsterman
    November 16, 2010
    flixsterman
    Formulaic horror film obviously aimed at teenage audiences. Sophomoric and senseless.
  • itsjustme2004
    October 25, 2010
    itsjustme2004
    Not even good enough to hate. Gross, violent and yet lame, all at the same time. I watched it to see Franka Potente, because she is so good in other films....but even she couldn't make this movie better. The anatomy models were the most interesting thing in the film.
  • Stinger839
    June 27, 2008
    Stinger839
    Horror Not to Miss List Commentary:
    This German film centers around the fictional alliance of medical professionals who believe in a credo antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath, that is their goal is to advance science without regard for the patient instead of vowing to preserve t... read morehe patient's life above all other duties. This features some of the better effects I've seen in a long time, as the med students of the anti-Hippocratic order use their classmates to make groundbreaking educational installations of human anatomy. Set within the med school, the central heroine gets keen to this practice, and must unravel what is going on before she ends up as the next feature in her professors' exhibit. The plot doesn't get more interesting beyond that, but the gore is amazing and the anatomic installations are beautiful.
  • deano
    August 5, 2007
    deano
    Great, gruesome fun with lots of spine-tingling suspense in this German chilling thriller.
  • danieljparsons
    May 10, 2008
    danieljparsons
    Review soon. A good concept forced into a generic slasher film.
  • roseypie
    June 15, 2009
    roseypie
    Franka Potente plays a medical student who uncovers a secret society behind some gruesome murders in Heidelberg Med. I like the work they did on the corpses, they were very realistic. The acting looked pretty ok, the dubbing just ruined it.
  • InaHH
    August 21, 2008
    InaHH
    Judging from various reviews, the English dubbing must be pretty bad, huh? I felt thoroughly entertained, but it is a pretty generic horror flick. I tend to like those, so 3 stars for providing ample entertainment.
  • ileo
    December 24, 2007
    ileo
    Amazing!
  • randallangela1
    July 25, 2007
    randallangela1
    Watch the German version.
  • fb677587177
    December 27, 2011
    fb677587177
    This didn't sit as well with me as I thought it was going to when I first started watching it. For one, the English dub is a little bit cheesy. I would have preferred reading subtitles over feeling like I was watching a Godzilla movie. Also, it's a bit slow-moving and the gore is... read more a little over the top. This is definitely disturbing, and definitely worth seeing, but it could have been better.

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David Nusair
October 11, 2002
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

[Anatomy's] premise is so strong and so creepy, that it keeps the film afloat even during its conventional slasher movie conclusion. Full Review

Jaime N. Christley
March 19, 2001
Jaime N. Christley, Apollo Guide

Sure, it's a bad film - an insipid, pointless, and occasionally ham-fisted schlockfest. But on that level, it works quite well. Full Review

Derek Elley
June 6, 2008
Derek Elley, Variety

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Stephen Holden
May 20, 2003
Stephen Holden, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
August 9, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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March 16, 2004
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Patrick Byrne
September 10, 2002
Patrick Byrne, Apollo Guide

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Philip Martin
July 26, 2002
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Jeremiah Kipp
January 27, 2002
Jeremiah Kipp, ToxicUniverse.com

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Keith H. Brown
February 15, 2001
Keith H. Brown, Eye for Film

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