Thut alles im Finstern eurem Herrn das Licht zu ersparen
Do Everything In The Dark In Order To Save Your Lord The Light
Germany, 1971
FILM,
Fiction,
45 min.
- directed by
- Daniel Schmid
- Written by
- Daniel Schmid
- Status
- In distribution
A documentary fiction about Europse's last training school for domestic staff. This film reminds one of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake - revealed and majestic. Each member of the audience sees a different story in it. It is labyrinthine cinema. A high-school full of mute expressions accompanied by a solitary voice speaking of revolution; an Italian palazzo where servants fuss about with a corpse; a woman speaking of her Mussolini past; a few hackneyed Elvis Presley songs are heard now and then above the talk - an amorphous story where nothing is shown and where the audience is offered no clue to help them understand.
credits
- World Premiere
- 1971
- Original Version
- French, German, colour, 16mm, 45 min.
- Production
- Iduna Film München, Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Producer
- directed by
- Daniel Schmid
- Written by
- Daniel Schmid
- Cinematography
- Gérard Vandenberg
- Editing
- Ila von Hasperg
- Location Sound Mix
- Hartmut Kunz
Cast
Stella Longo
Jenny Caputer
Isabella Morellato
Igor Joszà
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Condor Films AG , Ladina Schmidt
Worldwide Distribution
- Switzerland
- Frenetic Films Distribution