In the form of a “small theater of the world”, a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story of five episodes.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 6 min.
- Country, year
- Germany, 1981
- Genre
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Comedy
- Language
- German
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Ulrike Ottinger
- Screenplay
- Ulrike Ottinger, Renée Gundelach
- Producers
- Sibylle Hubatschek-Rahn
- Cinematography
- Ulrike Ottinger
- Music
- Wilhelm D. Siebert
- Cast
- Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, Albert Heins, Hans Langerschlanger, Claudio Pantoja
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
Sponsors and partners
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Director
Ulrike Ottinger
studied painting and photography at the Academy of Arts in Munich. She studied ethnology, religious studies and history of art at the Sorbonne. After moving to Berlin in 1973, she started making films. She became famous for her experimental work Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (1977). She is a universal artist: director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, stage designer, costume designer, painter and photographer. Her inspirations are drawn fro
