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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 04/03/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English, French, German Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 40 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Total Copies: 18 Genres: Thriller, Psychological Thriller

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 accepted 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, All Movie Guide

Franka Potente - Paula Henning
Benno Fürmann - Hein
Anna Loos - Gretchen
Sebastian Blomberg - Caspar
Holger Speckhahn - Phil
Herbert Knaup
Heike Makatsch
August Diehl

Creepy experiments abound in a local medical school in the horror thriller Anatomy. Columbia has produced a very well-rendered 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer of this movie. The colors all look very bright and even with black levels dark and thick. Only a slight amount of edge enhancement shows up in a few key scenes. The audio is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 in a dubbed English version and French, as well as Dolby 2.0 in English, German, and French. The Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is very full with surround sounds utilized through both the front and rear speakers. A small amount of distortion shows up in a few scenes, though otherwise this is a great-sounding audio track. Also included on this disc are English and French subtitles. =Anatomy is dissected into a very well-produced special edition. Starting off this disc is a commentary by German director Stefan Ruzowitzky (with English subtitles). The director has a lot to say about the making of this film, and seems to genuinely enjoy his film. A group of "deleted and extended scenes" are included with the director's commentary, which give insight into why they were left on the cutting-room floor. A music video from one of the actresses in Anatomy is featured, plus a short, yet insightful making-of featurette that is also dubbed in English. Finally, there are some theatrical trailers, a few production notes, and some thin talent files. ~ Patrick Naugle, All Movie Guide