Peter Handke

Synopsis:
In this tale, the scenes are simultaneously clear and labyrinthine.
Four people, the old man, the young woman, the soldier and the player walk around an imaginary topography across continents. They escape from their everyday existence. Each one of them starts out, alone, only to meet up and form a group, which is to move along like an expedition. Suddenly they come across a clearing, a city, a desert, an ocean. They all follow the ardent desire that drove them to leave.
Through their conversations, their discussions, rejoinders, monologues and dreams, they tell the story.
One day, the old man disappears, he who had guided the group. What remains is the search and the dream of finding hem again.Read More »

Quote:
Here is a VHS-sourced TVRip of celebrated Austrian novelist and sometimes filmmaker Peter Handke’s super rare first film, Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse (1971), which has never been released on DVD or even VHS. Handke is one of few novelists who has actually made an impact on film. The film stars Rüdiger Vogler, who starred in most of the early films directed by Handke’s longtime collaborator Wim Wenders.Read More »

S y n o p s i s
A woman living in the Paris suburbs struggles with a loveless marriage and apathy toward her family and friends as she spends her days quietly wandering about her house. Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke contributed screenplays to a number of films by director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick). Here (in a film that Wenders produced), he provides both the scenario (adapting his novel of the same name) and direction for this meditative examination of domestic ennui.Read More »