Edith Clever

Lars Eidinger is one of Germany’s most talented and versatile actors with his love of improvisation and physical acting style. This documentary seeks to dispel some of the mystique surrounding this exceptional actor’s unique art and also provide an exciting insight into the world of theatre and filmmaking.

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The play about the rich man's death.

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A requiem for the now-defunct German state of Prussia.

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In Heinrich von Kleist's "Penthesilea", war, the death of love and erotic cannibalism merge into a battle of the sexes. The drama, which was published in 1808, was not premiered until 70 years later. It is considered almost unplayable. Edith Clever and Hans Jürgen Syberberg have remembered that Kleist's "Penthesilea" was already read as a monologue in the time of its author and supplemented by pantomime on stage. In November 1987, they continued this tradition at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris: Edith Clever performed the play without lines and role changes, as a single long poem.

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Edith Clever recites the complete text of The Marquise of O. by Heinrich von Kleist.

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In her Berlin apartment, where the S-Bahn and long-distance trains pass by, the actress Edith Clever reads Molly Bloom’s monologue from James Joyce’s “Ulysses”.

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TV adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s eponymous book with Edith Clever as the only film actress.

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An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg and many different authors, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Plato, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Mörike, Richard Wagner, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, and Chief Seattle.

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A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s life, German literature and philosophy. The action is centered on Wagner’s death mask. Kundry is the main character – one might read the film as the story of her redemption rather than that of Amfortas.

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Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his own world. Based on the play by Botho Strauß.

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In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.

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Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.

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A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

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A French-language anthology of seven famous, fantastic, and psychological stories by beloved American author Henry James.

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A group of people from the wealthy middle class in engage in quasi intellectual quarrels and discussions trying to find some meaning in their comfortable and indolent life. Adaptation of the play by Maxim Gorky.

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Adaptation of a story by Henry James.

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Austrian flmed staged production of Euripedes' The Bacchae, portraying a conflict between the deity Dionysus, son of Zeus, and his cousin Pentheus, ruler of Thebes

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A Bremen production of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Torquato Tasso". The theme of the drama is—in addition to the love of the young Tasso for the Princess of Este, the Duke's sister—the role of the poet in courtly society.

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An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.

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