Originally released in the UK as Trance, Eckhart Schmidt’s Krautrock-infused shocker tells the story of Simone, a young woman whose obsession with her favourite electro-pop artist ‘R’ descends into madness.
A potent mix of heady psychosexual thrills and icy new wave aesthetics, this perverse study in deadly desire stands as one of the most criminally overlooked Euro-horrors of the period.
Der Fan (1982)
A krautrock-infused shocker about a young woman whose obsession with an electro-pop artist descends into madness.
- 1982 Federal Republic of Germany
- Directed by
- Eckhart Schmidt
- Produced by
- Barbara Moorse, Martin Moszkowicz
- Written by
- Eckhart Schmidt
- Featuring
- Désirée Becker, Bodo Staiger, Ian Moorse
- Running time
- 92 minutes