In
the form of a "small theater of the world",
a history of the world from its beginnings to our day,
including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the
fear, the madness,
the cruelty and the commonplace,
in a story of five episodes.
A Film by Ulrike Ottinger
Germany 1981
35 mm color 126 minutes
Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduction, Berlin
in Coproduction with
Pia Frankenberg GmbH
ZDF, Mainz