Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Penthesilea (1988)

monologue
Kleist’s Penthesilea is certainly one of the most extraordinary plays in the German of the German dramatic repertoire. It is about the the wild and destructive passion that seizes the Queen of the Amazons and Achilles, the Achilles, the Greek hero, under the walls of Troy. Revulsed by its violence and strangeness -only in the 20th century did people realise the extent of this work – Goethe was and condemned it. Edith Clever brings out the full power of this of this feverish text.

“All the great German actresses who concentrate on recitation have always dreamed of performing Kleist’s inner monologue. But just as the great music of the soul in Parsifal could not succeed in the optical masquerade that is the theatrical disguise of our reality, so this text which is in truth a lyrical and dramatic poem of the soul, could not be successful in the theatre. The words and images of the imagination were better suited to the inner eye than to realization in our material world, so that the solution to the problem could only be found in the film and its aesthetics. Just as Richard Wagner’s Parsifal was divided into two characters, so here all the characters in this mortal fugue of eternal love are fugue of eternal love are submerged in the single character of the woman who gives the title of the work, Penthesilea’ Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Penthesilea (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, 1988).mkv

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Runtime: 	4 h 3 min
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Language(s):German
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