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Synopsis

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

Main Cast

Antonio Salines

Teufel / Dr. Panizza

Age : 87 | Popularity : 8%

Magdalena Montezuma

Doppelzeugin

Age : 42 | Popularity : 4%

Kurt Raab

Gerichtspräsident

Age : 46 | Popularity : 4%

Renzo Rinaldi

Gottvater

Age : 62 | Popularity : 3%

Margit Carstensen

Staatsanwältin

Age : 84 | Popularity : 7%

Heinrich Giskes

Verteidiger

Age : 78 | Popularity : 4%

Agnès Nobecourt

Maria

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Roberto Tesconi

Christus

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Peter Berling
Directing	Director	Werner Schroeter
Crew	Cinematography	Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Writing	Screenplay	Dietrich Kuhlbrodt Horst Alexander Roberto Lerici
	Original Film Writer	Oskar Panizza
Editing	Editor	Catherine Brasier-Snopko
Department	Role	Name

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