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Liebeskonzil

6.9 / 10 | 1h 32m | Germany
1982 | Drama
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 List (23)

Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter
Director
Antonio Salines
Antonio Salines
Teufel
Antonio Salines
Antonio Salines
Dr. Panizza
Kurt Raab
Kurt Raab
Gerichtspräsident
Agnès Nobecourt
Agnès Nobecourt
Maria
Renzo Rinaldi
Renzo Rinaldi
Gottvater
Margit Carstensen
Margit Carstensen
Staatsanwältin
Kristina van Eyck
Kristina van Eyck
Agrippina
Magdalena Montezuma
Magdalena Montezuma
Doppelzeugin
Patrizia La Fonte
Patrizia La Fonte
Selbstmörderengel
Nicoletta Rigoni
Nicoletta Rigoni
Engel
Paola Mazzaro
Paola Mazzaro
Engel
Roberto Tesconi
Roberto Tesconi
Jesus von Nazareth
Heinrich Giskes
Heinrich Giskes
Verteidiger
Laura Versari
Laura Versari
Cherubin
Corinna Clauss
Corinna Clauss
Protokollführerin
Johannes Grützke
Johannes Grützke
1. Beisitzer
Gabriela Gomez-Ortega
Gabriela Gomez-Ortega
Dona Sifilide
Guido Polito
Guido Polito
Engel
Patrizia Novajra
Patrizia Novajra
Engel
Roberto Lerici
Roberto Lerici
Writer
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt
Writer
Horst Alexander
Horst Alexander
Writer

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