PLOT: The action of the film evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting & The film attempts to display sexual barriers and misconceptions, and about the role-playing and the confusion around the whole question of sexual and sensual involvement. The essence is the confrontation with self-deception, lies and the real fear of contact with both sexes.’
Based on the German playwright Frank Wedekind’s play Tod Und TeufelRead More »
Charles Regnier
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Stephen Dwoskin – Tod und Teufel AKA Death and Devil (1974)
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Phil Karlson & Richard Widmark – The Secret Ways (1961)
Phil Karlson1961-1970Film NoirRichard WidmarkThrillerUSAVienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor’s daughter, cross the border posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn’t want to go.Read More »
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Stephen Dwoskin – Tod und Teufel aka Death and devil (1973)
1971-1980ExperimentalStephen DwoskinUSAWithout turning his back on his earlier experiments with testing the boundaries, Dwoskin made fictional films, including a superb adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Tod und Teufel, in which voids and slips are filmed during acts of speech, rather than the characters and their actions.Read More »