A Film by Ulrike Ottinger
Germany 1981
35 mm color 126 minutes
Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduction, Berlin
in Coproduction with
Pia Frankenberg GmbH
ZDF, Mainz
Premiere:
November 1, 1981, 15th Hofer Filmtage
Festivals:
Filmfestival Berlin 1982
Festivals in Madrid, Bologna, Bordeaux, Figueira da Foz, Montréal etc.
Awards:
Audience Award in Sceaux, France 1983
Prädikat: Besonders Wertvoll
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.