Movie: Theater in Trance

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Antonin Artaud's "The Theater and its double". The audience is left to wonder how much of Artaud's radical and beautiful vision is realized in contemporary theater.

  • Release Date

    1981-08-20

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    6.4

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    3.2 starts

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    Documentary

  • Languages:

    Deutsch