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FICTION
Dicht hinter der Tür
Right Behind the Door
Mansur Madavi
It's night. Molly asks Leo to tell her a story. He relates that while shaving that morning he couldn't see his reflection
in the mirror. An invisible opponent appears. An elderly man stands before his appartment door and recites 'To be or not to
be' from Shakespeare and warns Leo. Leo walks through surrealistic images. Dialogue with death who tells him the exact time
and cause of his death. He finds himself in a region on the other side of the door. Leo meets obsessions in the shape of people.
A doctor diagnoses Leo's state as self-destructive. The eyes of a cat can be seen in the flat. Leo opens the door and sees
a desert, runs back and forth in the sand. A horsewoman is digging a ditch in the distance. Leo scoops water from the ditch
and finds some paper. Then he is back again in his bed in the flat. The eyes of the cat are seen again.
Shocking and symbolic dream images, modern adaptation of death in a story without beginning or end.
Technical Data | |
Running time: | 89 |
Format: | 35 mm |
Screen ratio: | 1:1.66 |
Language spoken: | German |
Production year: | 1984 |
Credits | |
Director(s): | Mansur Madavi |
Writer(s): | Mansur Madavi |
Cinematography: | Mansur Madavi |
Editing: | Serge Sidi |
Key cast: | Erhard Pauer, Alfred Solm, Irene Kugler, Nicolà Filippelli, Karl Schmid-Werter, Kurt Kosutic |
Producer: | Mansur Madavi |
Producers: | Walter Peters |