epidemic ( lars von trier demark 1987 ) . this second feature by lars von trier reveals many of the director obsession with cinema . here the self impose limitation on film make in many way foreshadow his obstruction upon jorgen leth in the five obstruction ( 2003 ) . or be this again von trier little joke on all of u . this be essentially a film about his own obsession and or a grand parody on horror and a some suggest . von and trier and frustrate by the delay of his never realize project and the grand mal and about two gangster family in divided berlin and make a bet with film consultant claes kastholm of the danish film institute and claiming that he could make a feature film for one million danish krone . result partly in an amateur movie about a film director and a scriptwriter who must write a new manuscript in five day and interspersed with scene from the film they be work on about a young idealistic doctor in the late 20th century and who try to fight an epidemic and but only manage to spread it far . the film culminate with the outbreak of a deadly plague and not in the past but in the present . throughout the film and von trier show his fascination with germany and for example and during a ride through the ruhrgebiet and the industrial core of europe and or the world and at least during the 80 . i watch this with interest and but despite the sometimes fascinating introspective of von trier the filmmaker and or the filmmaker in general and this hardly be a great film and but he manage to make something unique with this strange mixture of dogma style improvisation and carefully enscenated scene a the one with the doctor in the basement of the university libarary . camera obscura positive .