Death of the Flea Circus Director ( Der Tod des Flohzirkusdirektors ) ( La Mort du directeur du cirque de puces )

Death of the Flea Circus Director (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Der Tod des Flohzirkusdirektors
Alternate Title: La Mort du directeur du cirque de puces
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1973 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Thomas Koerfer

Written By:
Bertolt Brecht

Actors:
François Simon ..... Ottocaro Weiss
Paul Gogel ..... Johannes Wagner
Norbert Schwientek ..... Stephan Moosbrugger
Janine Weill ..... Anja, Artistin
Gothard Dietrich
Gerhard Dorfer
Peter Kner
Wolfgang Rottsieper

Synopsis:

With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss intends to put the plague on stage: circumstances beyond his control and a 'lack of fresh talent' have forced him to close down his flea circus. For Weiss, the plague means the 'extinction of everything that makes life miserable and low', and freedom along with it. Unbeknownst to him, he has won the support of a patron who is of the exact opposite opinion: for Johannes Wagner, the plague is an 'organising principle', and, aided by his agent Moosbrugger, he is able to smuggle a new number onto the programme. Whereas Ottocaro Weiss means to represent the plague theatrically, what appears on stage is the scientific reality of the rat-borne infestation.

Wagner believes that he is doing a service to a super-civilised humankind by unleashing the epidemic, but he is foiled by Weiss, whose need to salvage his own personal credibility and regain the political dimension he had lost leads him to exchange the theatre's world of appearances for reality. In the end, the freedom afforded by the stage is merely an illusion, and is not enough.

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