The Cremator
One of the most shocking and unsettling films ever made about the corruption of the soul, this expressionist nightmare charts a disturbed crematorium director’s twisted descent into Nazism.
One of the most shocking and unsettling films ever made about the corruption of the soul stars an almost supernaturally creepy Rudolf Hrušínský as Karel Kopfrkingl, the disturbed director of a crematorium (or as he calls it, “my temple of death”) in 1930s Prague. When Kopfrkingl’s mania for cremation becomes entwined with Nazi ideas of racial purity, it precipitates a twisted descent into madness and horror. Charged with a shivery, macabre expressionism, The Cremator stands as a nightmarish parable of how political ideology can be twisted to justify the unthinkable.
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