Council of Love

Liebeskonzil

West Germany

1982

92 Min

Color

German

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Horst Alexander, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Roberto Lerici

CAST Antonio Salines, Magdalena Montezuma, Kurt Raab, Agnès Nobecourt, Renzo Rinaldi, Margit Carstensen, Roberto Tesconi, Kristina Van Eyck, Heinrich Giskes, Gabriela Gomez-Ortega, Laura Versari, Patrizia La Fonte

SOUND Martin Steyer

Berlinale (Out of Competition), São Paulo: Critics Award

Synopsis

The playwright Oskar Panizzi was imprisoned by a Bavarian court in 1895 and committed to an insane asylum in 1904, for the rest of his life. The film covers his trial and a performance of his play. –BFI

Director

Werner Schroeter

Werner Schroeter (born 7 April 1945, Georgenthal, Thuringia) is a German film director and screenwriter, considered one of the most important of his country in the post-war period. He has also worked in film as a producer, cinematographer, editor and actor. In the later function he appeared in several films directed by his friend Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), and a number of theatre productions.

His 1980 film Palermo oder Wolfsburg, telling the story of a Sicilian guest worker in Germany, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, while his 1991 production Malina was entered into that year’s Cannes Film Festival.

In the 1960s, Schroeter worked with Rosa von Praunheim, who is also gay. Schroeter has also worked as a theater and opera director, in Germany and elsewhere. In the late 1970s Schroeter met the Irish Artist Reginald Gray at a collection of Yves St.Laurent in Paris. Gray painted a portrait of Schroeter. —Wikipedia read more