Clowns in the night

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Movie
Original title Clowns in the night
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1992
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Hans Peter Clahsen in collaboration with Michael F. Huse
script Werner Morgenrath
production Andrea Mathuis
camera Michael F. Huse
cut Hans Peter Clahsen,
Iris Pfeiffer
occupation

Clowns in the Night is a German documentary from 1992 about the first ten years of the Theater an der Ruhr . Compressed to 90 minutes for the ZDF / 3sat editorial team, the film director Hans Peter Clahsen and Michael F. Huse seamlessly interwoven key statements from Roberto Ciulli's most important productions .

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Based on Maxim Gorky's Lower Depths , the headstrong director Roberto Ciulli understanding revealed: the classics like the Modern survive their time in particular by the presence of each undertook interpretation.

The film consistently confronts King Oedipus of Sophocles , Handke's Kaspar , Brecht's The Threepenny Opera or Beckett's Happy Days , Waiting for Godot and Chekhov's Three Sisters with the United Colors of Benetton poster campaign and the 1991 revolt in Los Angeles due to racially motivated reasons Police violence.

The rehearsal process for the night asylum is centrally accompanied, original quote Ciulli: “Let us imagine that everything material exists in the world of the rich; and let us further imagine that in this world of the rich the feeling no longer exists. And if we keep spinning, which is not spinning, one can imagine that the exploitation is going in a different direction. After everything that is possible has been exploited, there remains the exploitation of feelings. "

Clowns in the night is the journey through Roberto Ciulli's theater world. Their references to the present are omnipresent. Due to the interlinking of the current rehearsal process with quotations from previous productions and with the Duisburg region, the filmmakers make it clear how modern theater fulfills its socio-political responsibility.

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  • The responsible film production company was contractually bound to a fixed delivery and broadcast date. But the premiere of Ciulli's “Nachtasyl” would have to be postponed due to the ÖTV strike. The television viewers as well as the specialist audience in the mirror tent at the Berlin Theatertreffen 1992 can experience this process up close.

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