Liebeskonzil
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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- Language
- German
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Release dates
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12 Mar 1982
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- When was Liebeskonzil released?
- Liebeskonzil was released on 12 March 1982.
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- What is the rating of Liebeskonzil?
- Liebeskonzil holds a 9.0/10 audience score from 1 votes.
- Who directed Liebeskonzil?
- Liebeskonzil (1982) was directed by Werner Schroeter.
- How long is Liebeskonzil?
- Liebeskonzil runs for 1h 32m.
