Director
Peter Handke, Peter Handke
Composer
Sambuca Nigra
Cast
Peter Handke, Marie Colbin
Edition 1988
65'
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1985
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Drama
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Dialogue:
German
A beautiful, nameless woman is hired to spend several days and nights with a man in his apartment. Not only does he want to sleep with her, but he is obsessed with the desire to look at her naked body. A philosophical dialogue develops between the man who relates his thoughts and writes them down and the woman who explains to him the causes of his 'lethal sickness'. After the woman has left, the narrator and observer, dressed in black, appears. It is Peter Handke, the poet. Film essay about the man - woman relationship: 'Peter Handke's most personal, most permissive and at the same time, most reserved film.
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Credits
Directors
Peter Handke, Peter Handke
Composers
Sambuca Nigra
Cast
Peter Handke, Marie Colbin
Scenario
Peter Handke
Director of Photography
Xaver Schwarzenberger
Editors
Marie Homolkova
Producers
Kurt J. Mrkwicka, Werner Swossil
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Dialogue
German
Countries of production
Austria
Screenplay based on
"La maladie de la mort" (Marguerite Duras)
Year
1985