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Plans to produce a motion picture based on the lurid case in which a man killed and ate another man, a willing victim, have touched off outrage in Germany, where the case occurred. German director Rosa von Praunheim, an openly gay director whose provocative films include a 1999 "cannibal comedy" called Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?, told the tabloid Bild Zeitung that he was fascinated by the case of computer technician Armin Meiwes, who posted an ad on the Internet in 2001 looking for a man willing to be killed and eaten. Bernd Juergen Brandes turned out to be the man. Meiwes is now serving an eight-year sentence for the crime. Von Praunheim's film is called Your Heart in My Head, something that Axel Wintermeyer, a member of the parliament in the state of Hesse, described as "hard to beat for tastelessness." He condemned the project as "a monument to a perverted criminal" and expressed particular anger over the fact that he film was being backed in part by funding from the North Rhine-Westphalia film institute. However, Reinhard Boeckh, spokesman for the North Rhine-Westphalia government, said that it was "arguable" that the film would glorify Meiwes. "It all depends how it's done," he said.
Plans to produce a motion picture based on the lurid case in which a man killed and ate another man, a willing victim, have touched off outrage in Germany, where the case occurred. German director Rosa von Praunheim, an openly gay director whose provocative films include a 1999 "cannibal comedy" called Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?, told the tabloid Bild Zeitung that he was fascinated by the case of computer technician Armin Meiwes, who posted an ad on the Internet in 2001 looking for a man willing to be killed and eaten. Bernd Juergen Brandes turned out to be the man. Meiwes is now serving an eight-year sentence for the crime. Von Praunheim's film is called Your Heart in My Head, something that Axel Wintermeyer, a member of the parliament in the state of Hesse, described as "hard to beat for tastelessness." He condemned the project as "a monument to a perverted criminal" and expressed particular anger over the fact that he film was being backed in part by funding from the North Rhine-Westphalia film institute. However, Reinhard Boeckh, spokesman for the North Rhine-Westphalia government, said that it was "arguable" that the film would glorify Meiwes. "It all depends how it's done," he said.
