Epidemic (1987) Lars von Trier

Danish experimental medical dark comedyhorror film directed by Lars von Trier. The film is divided into five days. On the first day of the protagonists, screenwriters Lars and Niels lose the only copy of a film script. They begin to write a new script about an epidemic: the outbreak of a plaguelike disease. Another protagonist is a doctor, Mesmer, who, against the will of the Faculty of Medicine of an unknown city, goes to the countryside to help people. During the next days, the facts of the script join the reallife events in which a similar disease starts to spread. Lars and Niels go to Germany, where they meet a man who describes the Allied bombing of Cologne during the Second World War.