This is "Anatomy", a German psychological thriller film from 15 years ago. It is actually one of the more known German movies abroad and it features Franka Potente playing the lead character briefly after her breakthrough in "Lola rennt". Looking at how long ago this was made, it is a bit surprising that so many actors in this film are actually still very popular today. This includes Benno Fürmann, Oliver Wnuk, Sebastian Blomberg, Anna Loos and maybe Rüdiger Vogler, who already worked in the 1970s with Wim Wenders. The writer and director is Stefan Ruzowitzky, from Austria. He won an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Feature category for "Die Fälscher" a while ago, but "Anatomie" or maybe also "Die Siebtelbauern" were his breakthrough films.Here we follow a young medicine student who gets accepted at a prestigious university, but quickly finds out that there are dark forces performing unethical experiments on a regular basis. The most interesting fact, however, is that these are not the real antagonists in this movie. It is more the radical wing of this group I just mentioned who are not scared of killing whenever and whomever they like. Now my general perception of this film is a double-edged sword. I liked parts of it and felt is was a decent thriller, but other parts I was not too fond of at all. This already starts with my perception that Fürmann, Loos and Wnuk are simply no talented actors in my opinion. Especially Loos did nothing for me here. Literally, the only reason why I felt she was in this film was to show her in the end when she was dead. Apart from that, Holger Speckhahn is not an actor by any means. Not even a good television show host, but even worse as an actor. Blomberg, who has more range, has been given a stupid role of a love interest to the main character that adds almost nothing to the film where he cannot put his talent on show at all. The only somewhat good thing was that you could wonder about basically every character in this film if he was good or bad and keep changing your opinion throughout the entire film repeatedly. For example, I was fairly certain that Loos' character would be actually evil and her friendship with Potente's character was just facade.Talking about Potente, she looks stunning in here and she is also maybe the best actor in this movie. Sad to see her career has gone south a lot since then. The ending credits include a nice German song names "Alles" ("Everything") and the refrain says something like "do you believe this was already everything?". This does not really make sense in terms of the story in this film, but it makes sense looking at the fact that Ruzowitzky made a sequel a couple years later. About this one here, I recommend it to fans of horror thrillers or fans of scalpel action, but everybody else can do without it. It's not half as good as it's famous.

From the get go I could imagine this would be a sick movie-- thanks to Brazilian's advertising and IMDb's reviewers. The film begins quickly and in a matter of minutes we already have bunch of informations, which probably will be useful to the denouement of the story. Things happen soon, making the movie become interesting, entertaining and suspenseful. One thing I have to mention is the phrase one doctor said in a lesson: "We live in the age of psychological disease", or something like that. In fact, he tried to show that nowadays many diseases come from our minds, and it is interesting to notice that a 2000's German movie says something very current, even in my society. Anytime I have a health problem my parents say "it's from your mind, you don't have anything". Anti- Hippocratic Society is very creative, delivering an original story with a good development, as well as revealing good unknown actors. The end is a classic cat-and-mouse thing, but doesn't spoil the movie's quality. Give it a chance, whether you like medicine or not.

I thought this movie was sooo bad. The acting was so terrible, the effects looked incredibly fake, the plot was just okay, the sequence and writing made NO sense at all.Overall, it was disgraceful. I have taken anatomy/physiology class, and honestly, the things they talked about and tried to make seem "cool" or somehow realistic, were really off.The plot was okay. The whole foreign country evil people horror thing has been played out way too many times. You will not like this movie. I couldn't even finish it, and I've seen worse. Do yourself a favor and don't see it. Even if you have the time, and boredom.

I had never seen Franka Potente before The Bourne identity, and I fell in love with her immediately. So far, I have only been able to get my hands on one film featuring her, and it's a real winner for those that like mystery/suspense with a little gruesomeness.No, it doesn't feature her bod, nor that of the incredibly beautiful German TV Star Anna Loos. Anna was hilarious with her "naughty" comments throughout. (As an aside, she is supposedly the lead singer of, or a member of a band called Leck mich am Arsch, which is also the name of a Mozart composition. You can have a lot of fun googling that bit of German.) She does do a song in the movie soundtrack.She is a doctor doing some research and stumbles on an old German medical society that does autopsies on people while they are still alive, using some sort of paralyzing drug. Lots of suspense as they discover she knows who they are and come after her - sort of like Extreme Measures.Also stars Benno Fürmann, who was in the superb Joyeux Noël, and who I am sure many will see in next year's Speed racer. Yes, it's not just Frake and Anna; there are plenty of German hunks for the ladies.