INTERVIEW WITH A CANNIBAL The Secret LIfe of the Monster of Rotenburg

If you saw him in the street, he wouldn't rate a second glance. But looks can be deceiving, and definitely are in this case, as Armin Meiwes is a cannibal. In March 2001, he killed a man and ate him with a glass of fine red wine. When a shocked worldwide public learned of this inconceivable crime, they had one simple question: Why? In Interview With A Cannibal, we begin to understand how two hitherto respectable and intelligent men, Armin Meiwes and Bernd Brandes, made an unwritten agreement in which one of them butchered the other upon request, and then proceeded to consume him piece by piece.

Interviewing Meiwes in 30 sessions at a high-security prison, journalist and filmmaker Günter Stampf probes into Meiwes’ life—from his isolated, lonely childhood to the homoerotic fantasies of his adulthood—and talks with family, friends and experts as he searches for clues to answer one simple question: Why?

Interview with a Cannibal explores, sparing no detail, the underground world of sadomasochistic sex rituals, cannibal cultism, and the intoxicating power of the Internet as it seeks to make comprehensible why two respectable and intelligent men conceived a plan that included an unwritten agreement for one man to kill and eat the other.