Willow Springs / Day of the Idiots - 2-DVD Set ( Willow Springs / Tag der Idioten )

Willow Springs / Day of the Idiots - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Willow Springs / Tag der Idioten
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Mono )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
244 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1973 - 1981 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Werner Schroeter

Written By:
Werner Schroeter
Dana Horaková

Actors:
Magdalena Montezuma ..... Magdalena
Christine Kaufmann ..... Christine
Ila von Hasperg ..... Ila
Michael O'Daniels ..... Son
Carole Bouquet ..... Carole
Ingrid Caven ..... Dr. Laura
Christine Kaufmann ..... Ruth
Ida Di Benedetto ..... Elisabet
Carola Regnier ..... Ninon
Mostefa Djadjam ..... Alexander
Hermann Killmeyer ..... Markus
Marie-Luise Marjan ..... Schwester Marjan
Magdalena Montezuma ..... Zigeunerin
Tamara Kafka ..... Himself
Dana Medrická
Fritz Schediwy
Jana Plichtová
George Stamkoski
Ula Stöckl

Synopsis:

The 2-disc DVD set presents new restored versions of two rare classics by Werner Schroeter: Willow Springs was shot in a village in the Moravi desert and describes a house run by three man-eaters. In Tag der Idioten a woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a mental institution. Rare short films by and about Werner Schroeter as well as stills from the shooting of Tag der Idioten are added as bonus features. DVD 1: Willow Springs 1973, 78', Dietrich Kuhlbrodt im Gespräch mit Werner Schroeter 2010, 8', Wolf Wondratschek: Laudatio auf Werner Schroeter 2011, 20', Begegnung mit Werner Schröter 2009, 10', Trilingual booklet with texts by Werner Schroeter, Wolfram Schütte and Carole Bouquet. DVD 2: Tag der Idioten 1981, 106', Aggression 1968, 22', Fotos from the shooting of Tag der Idioten by Digne M. Markovicz.

Willow Springs (1973)
This is the only film which Werner Schroeter has shot in the United States. The scene is a lonely, dilapidated house with a bar on the edge of the Mojave desert; the house, like the place in which it is located, is called "Willow Springs". The three Amazons sit in their lair, waiting for men to rob, love, and kill. But in this "feminist" counter-world, "male" power structures continue to function: the "master thinker" and priestess Magdalena (Montezuma) dominates the ethereal Christine (Kaufmann), who, in love with herself, is the sterile embodiment of an art grown unsensual. At the very bottom of the hierarchy is Ila (von Hasberg), the maid who says next to nothing. She not only finds sexual contact with the stranger Michael (O'Daniels), but also love. The two contrive to flee, but the murderous Magdalena kills them. "Art" also kills herself, before she goes out into the desert as the Black Angel, the title of Schroeter's next film, which was made in Mexico in 1973/74.
Day of the Idiots (1981)
Once Schroeter has presented this ensemble of Women under influence, to use the title of a film by John Cassavetes, in a theater-laboratory fashion, he brings the totally confined characters together polyphonically in the style of an operatic ensemble. In the washroom, amidst running water and steam, he presents in blue-filtered light, which pervades the film, a grotesque witches' coven, a wild Witches' Sabbath, with the voices of suffering and torment, of suppressed desires intertwining with the women's body language, gestures, and facial expression: a cinematographic masterpiece. Day of the Idiots, a fantasy on the torment and joy of yearning, on insanity and reality, transgression and identity of the self ranks among the most mysterious, the most perplexing of Werner Schroeter's narrative films.

Willow Springs (1973)
A feminist cult survives by robbing and killing passersby, at their remote desert ranch. The North Star Dhruva cult leader Magdalena refuses to work for the Yankee dollar. Consequently she subjugates her two followers, who are forced to listen to the music of German opera all the time, while Magdalena drinks rum and Coca Cola in the ranch's ornate bar. But the lesbian masochist's iron rule over the rundown California ranch is questioned when a mother-loving young male wanderer, Lord Invader, stops in and romances the cult's meek slave Ila, after his mother is turned away by Magdalena.
Day of the Idiots (1981)
Story of a mentally unstable woman who goes into an institution.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 13 May, 2015.

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