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FICTION
Das Mal des Todes
The Stigma of Death
Peter Handke
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.' (profil, S. Löffler, July 22, 1985)
Technical Data | |
Running time: | 65 |
Format: | 35mm |
Screen ratio: | 1:1.66 |
Language spoken: | German |
Production year: | 1985 |
Credits | |
Director(s): | Peter Handke |
Writer(s): | Peter Handke (based on the short story La maladie de la mort by Marguerite Duras) |
Cinematography: | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
Editing: | Marie Homolkova |
Key cast: | Marie Colbin, Peter Handke |
Producer: | Kurt J. Mrkwicka |
Premiere: |
1985 Cannes (Un certain régard)
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Production company
MR-FILM GmbH
Auhofstraße 70
1130 Vienna
tel:+43 1 876 87 15
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