Released
Theater in Trance
August 20 1981 (over 43 years ago)Rating
64
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- Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 1 h 31 m
- Country: Germany
- Company: Laura Film
Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Antonin Artaud's "The Theater and its double". The audience is left to wonder how much of Artaud's radical and beautiful vision is realized in contemporary theater.