The film has received nearly $25,000 in public funding from a regional film foundation in North Rhine-Westphalia, the western state ruled by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats and is being billed as a mix of “grotesqueness, thriller and documentary,” and is set for completion in December. If you are still unfamiliar and at all intrigued Reuters is reporting that gay filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has immortalized the man on film, whose working title is Your Heart in My Brain. 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. ![]() I am sure many of you have heard of the German cannibal that met a willing meal over the Internet, but if you haven’t his name was Armin Meiwes and he was sentenced in January ’04 to eight and a half years in jail for manslaughter after 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.
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