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Liebeskonzil

Liebeskonzil

19821h 32m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1982

Runtime

1h 32m

Storyline

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza was imprisoned for obscenity. Schroeter alternates scenes from the Panizza’s work with a dramatization of his trial, presenting the play as an expressionist spectacle performed by actors wearing exaggerated makeup who gesture and grimace grotesquely. The film thus forms a bridge between Schroeter’s use of tableaux in his early experiments with the political urgency of his 1980s films. On the eve of the AIDS crisis, Schroeter is presciently worried about disease as an excuse for governmental repression and the oppression of sexuality. - Harvard Film Archive

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 32m
Mar 12, 1982
Languages
German
Director
Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter
Production Countries
Germany

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