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Schramm
Schramm
Directed by	Jörg Buttgereit
Written by	Jörg Buttgereit; Franz Rodenkirchen;
Produced by	Manfred O. Jelinski
Starring	Florian Koerner von Gustorf; Monika M.; Micha Brendel; Carolina Harnisch;
Edited by	Jörg Buttgereit; Manfred O. Jelinski;
Music by	Max Müller; Gundula Schmitz;
Release date	1993;
Running time	65 min.
Country	Germany
Language	German

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Schramm (1993) is a German exploitation horror film written and directed by Jörg Buttgereit, with screenplay credit also to Franz Rodenkirchen. It tells the story of a man referred to in the media as the 'Lipstick Killer', who is believed to have had multiple victims.

Synopsis

Lothar Schramm is a polite, neighborly cab driver who makes an honest living. Sometimes he invites callers in for cognac, such as a couple who come to his door seeking to tell him about Jesus. Later he might slit their throats and assemble their bodies in suggestive poses.

He lives next door to a young, beautiful prostitute named Marianne, with whom he is smitten. Schramm is lonely. His sex life is seriously deranged, with various expressions, and his social life is nonexistent. He whitewashes bloodstains from his murders off the walls of his flat.

When Marianne is invited by some affluent gentlemen clients to a villa outside of town, she asks Schramm to chauffeur her so she'll be safe. He accepts and afterward invites her to a friendly dinner, ignoring his desire for her. He takes her back to his flat, where he drugs, strips, and photographs her. He masturbates over her naked body. The next day Marianne rings at his door for a lift, but Schramm does not answer. He has fallen from a ladder while painting over the blood on his walls and dies. His head has cracked on the floor.

The last passage shows Marianne in the villa outside of town, attired like a Hitler Youth, and bound and gagged on a chair. She is a helpless victim to her twisted clients. Papers report the 'Lonesome Death of Lipstick Killer.'

Cast

Florian Koerner von Gustorf as Lothar Schramm
Monika M. as Marianne
Micha Brendel as Der Gläubige
Carolina Harnisch as Die Gläubige
Xaver Schwarzenberger as Älterer Herr 1
Gerd Horvath as Älterer Herr 2
Michael Brynntrup as Jesus
Franz Rodenkirchen as Zahnarzt
Anne Presting as Zahnärztin
Eddi Zacharias as Liebhaber
Michael Romahn as Selbstmörder
Volker Hauptvogel as Kellner

Background

The film opens with a quote by American serial killer Carl Panzram (executed 1930). It is loosely based on the criminology profiles of him and other documented killers.

References

Kerekes, D. (1998). Sex, Murder, Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit. Manchester: HEADPRESS.
Koven, M. J. (2007). Buttgereit's Poetics: 'Schramm' as a Cinema of Poetry. In Hantke, S. Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945. pp. 185–197. Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Plymouth UK: The Scarecrow Press Inc.
Stiglegger, M. (2007). "Good News From the Underground: A Conversation with Jörg Buttgereit." In Hantke, S. Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945. pp. 219–226. Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Plymouth UK: The Scarecrow Press Inc.

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-'''''Schramm''''' is a 1993 [[Germany|German]] [[horror film]] directed by controversial taboo-breaking auteur [[Jörg Buttgereit]]. It is stylised and artfully shot on 16mm film. It tells  the story of a man who has been known in the media as the 'Lipstick Killer'. Loosely based on true crime criminology profiles of [[Carl Panzram]] and similar serial killers.
+'''''Schramm''''' (1993) is a German [[Exploitation film|exploitation]] [[horror film]] written and directed by [[Jörg Buttgereit]], with screenplay credit also to [[Franz Rodenkirchen]]. It tells the story of a man referred to in the media as the 'Lipstick Killer', who is believed to have had multiple victims.
 == Synopsis ==
+Lothar Schramm is a polite, neighborly cab driver who makes an honest living. Sometimes he invites callers in for cognac, such as a couple who come to his door seeking to tell him about Jesus. Later he might slit their throats and assemble their bodies in suggestive poses.
+He lives next door to a young, beautiful prostitute named Marianne, with whom he is smitten. Schramm is lonely. His sex life is seriously deranged, with various expressions, and his social life is nonexistent. He whitewashes bloodstains from his murders off the walls of his flat.
-Lothar Schramm is a polite, neighborly cab driver who makes an honest living and invites callers in for cognac. Later on, he might slit their throats and assemble their bodies in suggestive poses. He lives next door to a young, beautiful prostitute named Marianne, with whom he is smitten. Schramm is lonely. His sex life is seriously deranged and his social life is nonexistent. He makes love to inflatable plastic dolls, fantasizes about vaginas with teeth, nails his foreskin to tables and dreams of a visit to the dentist who extracts him an eyeball. He has constant flashbacks and paranoid delusions of his knee getting amputated. He whitewashes bloodstains off the walls of his flat. When Marianne is invited by some affluent gentlemen clients to a villa outside of town, she asks Schramm to chauffeur her so she'll be safe. He accepts and he invites her to a friendly dinner, ignoring his desire for her. He takes her back to his flat, where he drugs her and strips her. He snaps photos and masturbates spitefully over her naked body. The next day Marianne rings at his door for a lift, but Schramm does not answer. He has fallen from a ladder while painting over the blood on his walls. His head has cracked on the floor. The next thing we see is Marianne in the villa outside of town, attired like a [[Hitler Youth]], bound and gagged on a chair, helpless victim to her eccentric clients.
+When Marianne is invited by some affluent gentlemen clients to a villa outside of town, she asks Schramm to chauffeur her so she'll be safe. He accepts and afterward invites her to a friendly dinner, ignoring his desire for her. He takes her back to his flat, where he drugs, strips, and photographs her. He masturbates over her naked body. The next day Marianne rings at his door for a lift, but Schramm does not answer. He has fallen from a ladder while painting over the blood on his walls and dies. His head has cracked on the floor.
-Papers declare the 'Lonesome Death of Lipstick Killer.'
+The last passage shows Marianne in the villa outside of town, attired like a [[Hitler Youth]], and bound and gagged on a chair. She is a helpless victim to her twisted clients. Papers report the 'Lonesome Death of Lipstick Killer.'
+==Cast==
+*Florian Koerner von Gustorf as Lothar Schramm
+*Monika M. as Marianne
+*Micha Brendel as Der Gläubige
+*Carolina Harnisch as Die Gläubige
+*Xaver Schwarzenberger as Älterer Herr 1
+*Gerd Horvath as Älterer Herr 2
+*Michael Brynntrup as Jesus
+*Franz Rodenkirchen as Zahnarzt
+*Anne Presting as Zahnärztin
+*Eddi Zacharias as Liebhaber
+*Michael Romahn as Selbstmörder
+*Volker Hauptvogel as Kellner
+==Background==
+The film opens with a quote by American serial killer [[Carl Panzram]] (executed 1930). It is loosely based on the criminology profiles of him and other documented killers.
+==References==
+* Kerekes, D. (1998). ''Sex, Murder, Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit''. Manchester: HEADPRESS.
+* Koven, M. J. (2007). Buttgereit's Poetics: 'Schramm' as a Cinema of Poetry. In Hantke, S. ''Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945''. pp.&nbsp;185–197. Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Plymouth UK: The Scarecrow Press Inc.
+* Stiglegger, M. (2007). "Good News From the Underground: A Conversation with Jörg Buttgereit." In Hantke, S. ''Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945''. pp.&nbsp;219–226. Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Plymouth UK: The Scarecrow Press Inc.
 == External links ==
 * {{IMDb title|0108053|Schramm}}
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070914171001/http://jb.derknecht.net/ Jelinski & Buttgereit Online]
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