Your heart is in my brain. (Story of a German cannibal coming to a theatre near you. Maybe.)

From Reuters.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal who gained global notoriety for eating a willing victim, is being immortalized in a movie by a gay filmmaker, and hardly surprisingly, the project is already running into controversy.

The film, whose working title is "Your Heart in My Brain," has received 20,000 euros ($24,580) in public funding from a regional film foundation in North Rhine-Westphalia, the western state ruled by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats.

Meiwes was sentenced in January to eight and a half years in jail for manslaughter after a trial whose gory details riveted Germany.

He admitted killing a Berlin computer specialist he met via the Internet, but was spared a murder verdict as the victim had asked to be eaten in a startling case of sexual fetishism.

Meiwes recorded the deed on video tape and shocked the court with his matter-of-fact account of how he severed the man's penis at the latter's request, and how they both tried to eat it, first raw and then fried in a saucepan.

Billed as a mix of "grotesqueness, thriller and documentary," the film by critically acclaimed filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim, a man, is stirring up political arguments even before its completion, set for December.

"Even the title of the project could scarcely be more tasteless," said Axel Wintermeyer, legal affairs spokesman for the conservative Christian Democrats in the state of Hesse.

"This is creating a monument to a perverted criminal," said Wintermeyer, adding he was appalled that it was being part-funded by taxpayers' money.

Comments

[Ulrik Pagh]

I agree with mr. Wintermeyer. Freedom of speech is one thing, but it's just not fair to spend taxpayers' money on promoting something as sick as that. What's the point? You know, people who see that movie are gonna thimk the world is a terrible place where sick shit like that is almost normal. Man, I for one am glad I'm not some kid who has nightmares about sick perverted people eating other people's brains, or whatever. It's downright evil when you think about it.
"Tasteless" is an ill-chosen word however. Now, it'll probably take a huge amount of peppermint bonbons or something, just to take my mind off even having read your article. Damn, there goes my sweet dreams. Your mama!