LoginLaokoon Söhne (Laocoon & Sons, Laokoon & Söhne) (1975)
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Inspired by Virginia Woolf's Orlando, magic transformations give rise to multiple and eccentric character roles for the same extraordinary woman.
Taking cues from silent films and circus attractions, the first collaborative effort of Ulrike Ottinger & Tabea Blumenschein is a deliberately goofy ‘fairy tale’ of a ‘blonde magic’ sorceress, Esmeralda del Rio, and her continuous transformations, set in a mythical land of Laura Molloy inhabited only by women (as well as a few men in drag posing as women). Heavily drunk on life, permeated with a childlike abandon, and quite possibly shot with both of the authors’ tongu
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Release date: 27 March 1975
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