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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Language(s):German
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Quote:
Die Nacht – a gigantic dramatic monologue in four parts like Wagner’s Ring – was produced as a film after first performances at the Theâtre des Amandiers in Paris in autumn 1984. Throughout six hours, Edith Clever plays poems, prose texts, letters, speeches, and dramatic roles invoking grief and farewell, doom and the nearness of death. The montage of poetic subject matter spans from Goethe and Kleist, Platon and Hölderlin, Novalis and Jean Paul to the Indian chief Seattle’s speech and texts by Hans Jürgen Syberberg.

Die Nacht (1985) - pt1.mkv

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Language(s):German
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Plot:
The costume drama Die Marquise von O is French director Eric Rohmer’s first feature-length theatrical release after a four-year break from filmmaking. Based on a novella by Henrich von Kleist, the dialogue is spoken in the original German language and the story is set in Italy during the 18th century. Edith Clever plays the widowed Marquise, who is sexually assaulted by Russian soldiers and rescued by a Count (Bruno Ganz). Some time later, she has to explain to her parents (Peter Lühr and Edda Seippel) and brother (Otto Sander) why she’s pregnant. Die Marquise von O won the Grand Jury Prize in the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. At least one of the home video releases and several capsule reviews erroneously state the film (and its parent novella) as unfolding during the Franco-Prussian wars, but both are actually set during the Napoleonic Wars, hence the presence of Russian troops.

Die.Marquise.von.O...AKA.The.Marquise.of.O.1976.576p.Bluray.x264-Gomos.mkv

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https://fikper.com/7pwh5FYvkX/Die.Marquise.von.O…AKA.The.Marquise.of.O.1976.576p.Bluray.x264-Gomos.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English,French

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Peter Stein’s production of Gorki´s SOMMERGÄSTE at the Schaubühne in December 1974 became one of the greatest theatre successes in Germany and beyond. “That’s how theatre should always be. That’s how actors should always play,” wrote Le Monde, while in England the Daily Telegraph only had a simple title: “Director of genius”. In 1975 Stein filmed the play in a new adaptation by Botho Strauß.

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https://nitro.download/view/54F48F217FEC5A0/Sommergaste.mkv

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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.

R e v i e w
Of the many films by Peter Handke (either alone or with his partner Wim Wenders) this may be the most appealing. It is also not recommended for modern viewers accustomed to Hollywood’s rhythm -it is long, slow paced and even difficult to follow sometimes. I strongly recommend viewers to read the book too, although they may not find too many additional clues there, for Handke’s style is to reflect the character’s actions rather than their thoughts (which, by the way, should be the perfect cinematic approach). Some people have wasted their time especulating about the woman’s reasons to divorce her husband: the french essayist Gilles Lipovetsky even said that her “lack of good reasons” is a sign of modern life’s emptiness. In fact, we can not say she does not have reasons: only we are not allowed to see them on the screen. One might even think that Handke himself did not care to build the woman’s inner thoughts (and if he did, he sure did not share them with us). The movie, and the book, are about communication between us, or at least this is one of its possible readings. Do we really know what is on other people’s mind, even people real close to us? The answer is no: we can only talk of what they tell us, or what we might hint, but how many times had we been completely wrong about somebody? The movie defies the usual assumption of an omniscient camera: the woman would not share her thoughts with the viewers, and this leaves us with a sense of discomfort. We feel compelled to find motivations that are just not there. Just the fact that the movie makes us think about it would be enough to qualify it as a masterpiece. (IMDb user comment)

“Sie kam mit andern aus einem Untergrundschacht
Sie aß mit andern in einem Schnellimbiß
Sie saß mit andern in einem Waschsalon
aber einmal habe ich sie allein vor einem Zeitungsaushang stehen sehen

Sie kam mit andern aus einem Büroturm
Sie drängte mit andern an einen Marktstand
Sie saß mit andern um einen Sandspielplatz
aber einmal habe ich sie durch ein Fenster allein schachspielen sehen

Sie lag mit andern auf einem Parkrasen
Sie lachte mit andern in einem Spiegelkabinett
Sie schrie mit andern auf einder Achterbahn
Und dann sah ich sie allein nur noch durch meine Wunschträume gehen

Aber heute in meinem offenen Haus:
Der Telefonhörer auf einmal andersherum
der Bleistift links neben dem Notizblock
daneben die Teetasse mit dem Henkel nach links
daneben der andersherum geschälte Apfel (nicht zu Ende geschält)
Die Vorhänge von links aufgezogen
Und die Haustürschlüssel in der linken Jackentasche
Du hast dich verraten, Linkshänderin!
Oder wolltest du mir ein Zeichen geben?

Ich möchte dich IN EINEM FREMDEN ERDTEIL sehen
Denn da werde ich dich unter den andern endlich allein sehen
Und du wirst unter tausend andern MICH sehen
Und wir werden endlich aufeinander zugehen”

– Peter Handke, Die linkshändige Frau
1.78GB | 1h 51mn | 732×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/19180FE36FBF878/Peter_Handke_-_(1978)_The_Left-Handed_Woman.mkv

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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