| Director: | Rainer Erler |
| Narrator: | ZDF |
| Music: | Eugen Thomass |
| Editor: | Hilwa von Boro |
| Runtime: | 114 minutes |
| Country: | West Germany |
| Language: | German |
Fleisch (international title: Spare Parts)[1] is a German television horror film directed by Rainer Erler. Released in 1979, the film focuses on organ trafficking. Fleisch has been recognized as a cult film.[2]
A newly married couple is spending their honeymoon in the southwestern United States.[3] Suddenly, the unbelievable happens: the husband is kidnapped and assaulted by paramedics in an ambulance. The wife escapes at the last minute, and is picked up by a truck driver.[4] Together they embark on the search for the kidnapped husband, encountering a dangerous and perfectly organized syndicate that supplies the world's wealthy customers in organs of young, healthy people.[5]
It was produced for ZDF and was telecast on 16 June 1979 on German television.[6] The cast of the film includes Jutta Speidel and Wolf Roth.[7]
The television station ProSieben narrated the, which was directed by Oliver Schmitz,[8] the movie starred Sebastian Ströbel and Theresa Scholze.[9]
Erler subsequently turned his screenplay into a novel which was originally published by Goldmann Verlag. A revised edition was released by Shayol Verlag in 2006.[10]