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Liebeskonzil

03/12/1982

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1hr 32min

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Drama

STORY

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

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Antonio Salines
  • Magdalena Montezuma
  • Kurt Raab
  • Renzo Rinaldi
  • Margit Carstensen

    Director

  • Werner Schroeter

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German

Cast

Antonio Salines

Teufel / Dr. Panizza

Magdalena Montezuma

Doppelzeugin

Kurt Raab

Gerichtspräsident

Renzo Rinaldi

Gottvater

Margit Carstensen

Staatsanwältin

Heinrich Giskes

Verteidiger

Agnès Nobecourt

Maria

Roberto Tesconi

Christus

Lauro Versari

Cherubim

Patrizia La Fonte

Selbstmörder-Engel