Shortfilms
Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
BRD 1968
23 min
V'16
Accepting an invitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Straub staged a strongly condensed version of Ferdinand Bruckner’s play “Illness of Youth” in Munich’s Action-Theater. Taking this performance as a starting-point, he produced a short film consisting of a few scenes, filmed in and around Munich, which catapulted the characters into the open and developed them. It is a “film within a film” with a documentary-style introduction, a real chase and the only murder to be found in the Straubs’ body of work.
Credits
- James Powell - James
- Lilith Ungerer - Lilith
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Freder/der Zuhälter
- Peer Raben - Alt/Willi
- Irm Hermann - Desirée
- Hanna Schygulla - Lucy
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Danièle Huillet
- Niklaus Schilling
- Hubs Hagen
- Herbert Linder
- Peter Lütz
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Danièle Huillet
Janus Film
Jean-Marie Straub
Belva Film
35 mm
bw
