Tears of Kali
| Tears of Kali | |
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| Directed by | Andreas Marschall |
| Written by | Andreas Marschall |
| Music by |
Bharti India Panama John |
| Cinematography |
Heiko Merten Michael Schuff |
| Edited by | Andreas Marschall |
Production company |
Cut and Run Production Lopta Film |
Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country |
 Germany |
| Language | German |
Tears of Kali is a 2004 German horror film directed by Andreas Marschall.
Plot
In India of the 70s and 80s, various sects were founded to meditation and self-help. One of this sects is the so-called Taylor-Eriksson-group, which exorcise the "dark part of the human souls" with the help of radical experiments. All members had taken the vow of silence and its nearly impossible to get informations about the group's pracitces, after the sects are disbanded.
The film is an anthology that connects three independent German horror short films, using the mysterious cult of this sect as a wrap-around story. During the film, the dark secrets of the sect are become known. The three chapters of the movie are named after motives from the Hinduism and are about the former members of the Taylor-Eriksson-group.
Chapter 1: Shakti
The journalist Tansu Yilmaz is visiting a psychiatry in Berlin to get more informations of Elisabeth Steinberg, a former member of the sect. Steinberg is suspected for the complicity in the mysterious dead of her guru Sarmafan. Supposedly, she should instigated an communard from his sect to murder the guru. Yilmaz is engage her in a lot of contradictions and finds out the truth. Beginning as an interview, it follows a nightmarish struggle of life or death.
Chapter 2: Devi
Dr. Steiner should help the hooligan Robin Borg, who is trying to escape from the therapeutic approaches by Steiner. Because of the honesty and aggressiveness of Robin, the doctor is mocking his patient. Finally, Steiner taken the first sentence of Robin in the conversation, "I want to get out of my skin!", literally, and force him to shedding his skin using hypnosis.
Chapter 3: Kali
The healer Edgar, medicate the patient Mira in a group therapy. She seems to be afflicted by a mysterious disease since her stay in India. Actually Edgar can heal her, but afterwards, a dark force creeps through the old villa, where the therapies take place. Miras "disease" consequently was a being from an otherworldly dimension, which is need a new host...