der todesking be not exactly the type of film that make you merry jörg buttgereit second cult monument in a row and which be actually a lot good than the infamous nekromantik and exists of seven short episodes one for each day of the week revolve on unrelated people suicide . in between these already very disturb episode and buttgereit insert truly horrify image of a severely decompose male corpse . the episode aren not all equally powerful but and a a wholesome and der todesking be rank quite high on the list of all time most depressing art house film . particularly the episode on wednesday and involve a man explain his sexual frustration to a total stranger in the park and and the one of sunday and focus on a young man molest himself to dead and be extremely intense and devastate to observe . the added value of this film and or any other shockumenary like it and be debatable and i be not even sure whether or not buttgereit have any type of message to communicate here . there the vague mentioning of an eerie chain letter that encourage it reader to commit suicide but mostly we remain uninformed about these people motivation to end their life so dramatically . entirely unlike i expect and der todesking isn not exploitative or repulsively graphic . on the contrary actually and i never could have hop buttgereit would be so subtle and thoughtful regard the portrayal of pure human misery . the thursday episode be a perfect example of this and a it stylishly show different viewpoint of a famous german bridge while the name and age and occupation of person who jump off appear on the screen . the production value be inescapably poor and the edit often lack professionalism and but this isn not what really count in this type of cinema . the subject matter be strong and force u to contemplate about the less cheerful but also indispensable aspect of life . great use of tragic music and too .