Summary This highly stylized film mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed. A kinetic melodrama of the rise of a femme-fatale and her fate at the hands of Jack-the-Ripper. Rethinking Pabst's silent film and Alban Berg's opera. View more details
Directed : Ronald Chase
Written : Frank Wedekind
Stars : Elisa Leonelli Michael Anderson Stephen Ashbrook Norma Leistiko
Genres : Drama Musical Music
Release date : Apr 30, 1978
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Summary This highly stylized film mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed. A kinetic melodrama of the rise of a femme-fatale and her fate at the hands of Jack-the-Ripper. Rethinking Pabst's silent film and Alban Berg's opera. View more details
Genres : Drama Musical Music
Release date : Apr 30, 1978
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English