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The Malady of Death (1985)

ALL 03/26/1985 (de) Drama 65 Min
  • Release
    03/26/1985
  • Production
    ORF, MR Filmproduktion
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Das Mal des Todes
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body. For most of the hour, as the concise narration of Marguerite Duras' novel on eroticism and aesthetics fills the aural gaps, actress Marie Colbin's form fills the visual gaps. But unless viewers consider the feminine eyeball or microscopic views of skin exotic and worth lingering over, the eroticism lies more in the imagination than on the screen. In fact, the female body lying on the bed, taken away from the spirit that animates it, is really just a corpse -- raising the question, exactly what is the "malady of death?"

  1. Peter Handke

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Marie Colbin

    the anonymous woman

  2. Peter Handke

    the narrator

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 2 , Crews : 9

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The Malady of Death (1985) 65 Min

ALL 03/26/1985 (de)
Drama
  • Release 03/26/1985
  • Production
    ORF, MR Filmproduktion
  • Original title Das Mal des Todes
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body. For most of the hour, as the concise narration of Marguerite Duras' novel on eroticism and aesthetics fills the aural gaps, actress Marie Colbin's form fills the visual gaps. But unless viewers consider the feminine eyeball or microscopic views of skin exotic and worth lingering over, the eroticism lies more in the imagination than on the screen. In fact, the female body lying on the bed, taken away from the spirit that animates it, is really just a corpse -- raising the question, exactly what is the "malady of death?"

  1. Peter Handke

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Marie Homolkova

    Editor

  4. Producer



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