Liebeskonzil (1982)

• 69%
• 1982
• Drama
• Antonio Salines
• Magdalena Montezuma
• Kurt Raab

Oskar Panizza's The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set en 1495, during the first grabado outbreak of sífilis, which Panizza satirically presenta as the punishment from Satanás for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza lo imprisoned for obscenity. Schroeter alternates scenes from the Panizza's work with a dramatization of his trial, presentación de the play as a expresionista espectáculo performed by actors wearing exagerado maquillaje oms gesture and grimace grotesquely. The film thus forms (a bridge between Schroeter's use of tableaux en his early experiments with the political urgency of his 1980s película. On the eve of the SIDA crisis, Schroeter is presciently worried about disease as an excuse for gubernamental de represión and the oppression of sexuality.