Friday, May 12, 2006

Tears of Kali, an inspired German gem.

From Anolis Entertainment comes this gem, directed by Andreas Marschall and starring Mathieu Carriere, Peter Martell, Cora Chilcott and a great cast than you can check at the official website of the movie.

In the end of the 70s, Poona in India was one of the harbours for those looking for inspiration. In the early 80s, several communes and self-experiencing groups were established. From the biggest group, the Raijnish-group, many smaller groups did split. In their own ways they started to therapy what they looked upon as "sicknesses of the western world". One of those groups was the (in-) famous Taylor - Eriksson-group, who did not accept any limits for their experiments. Although nobody did know exactly who were Taylor and Eriksson, where they came from and what they had in mind, this group had a big following. There were strange rumors about this group, about extreme self-finding-experiments and about the disappearance of some participants. In the end of 1983 the group suddenly disintegrated.

Shakti

20 years later a young woman, Tansu Yilmaz, tried to solve the murder of Samarfan, a therapist. During her investigations she came across Elisabeth Steinberg, a woman who was sent to a mental hospital because of this murder. While she was talking to Elisabeth, Tansu learns that Samarfan was a member of the Taylor–Eriksson-group. Soon it turns out that Elisabeth bears a terrible secret, too...

Devi

To avoid a long sentence of imprisonment, Robin, a young violent man, is sentenced to undergo a socio-therapeutical treatment of 15 hours. His treatments for violent men did earn Dr. Steiner a great reputation. In the early 80s he completed his therapeutical experience in Poona in a certain and very radical self-finding group. For Robin Dr. Steiner's therapy will become an ugly surprise.


Kali

Edgar Cornelsen, a healer who calls himself "The Golden", holds therapeutical meetings, promising healing for the participants. But this "healer" really is a fraud and alcoholic. One day a woman asks for a special treat. When she asks him to take away a big load burdening her for years, he sets free an eerie power...

The eerie stories around the Taylor-Eriksson-group and their members are told in three episodes - Shakti, Devi, Kali -, embedded into a frame plot. This group tried to re-define the limits of self-finding, sex and violence. Starting as a psychological cat-and-mouse-game, the story soon turns into pure horror.

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