The film features footage of three productions by the Berliner Ensemble from 1953: excerpts from performances of Puntila and Mutter, as well as a fairly detailed recording of the dress rehearsal for Urfaust. The production of “Urfaust,” created in collaboration with Egon Monk, had aroused the displeasure of SED cultural officials. Syberberg and Germanist Prof. Dr. Hans Mayer discuss the controversy.
In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative.
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.
A dramatised documentary which explores ghetto life as seen and felt inside Harlem, based on experiences of the Northside Centre for Child Development.
