Tag der Idioten
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Day of the Idiots
Carol is an attractive but somewhat eccentric 20-year-old. Coming from a well-to-do family, she doesn′t have any financial concerns and could lead an easy life. But it is this daily indifference that dissatisfies her, makes her restless, and rouses in her ideas, fantasies, longings - all beyond the accepted norms.
Carol demands a lot from her environment and herself. Because it is her life that is of concern, and no one else′s, she wants everything and she wants it now.
But what reason could she have for behaving this radically and outrageously? Why does she ruin other people′s lives? Just because she does have the hang on her own life?
What is it that Carol needs? Love? Devotion? Affirmation? Isn′t there anybody to give it to her? Why does she think she cannot lead a normal life? What makes her enter the world of psychiatry to look for the sincerity in this world of illusion and deception? Isn′t her obsession self-destructive and couldn′t her desire for extremeness be the extreme longing for death?
Day of the Idiots asks all these questions and answers then - surprisingly and frighteningly.
Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH
Credits
| Director: | Werner Schroeter |
| Screenplay: | Dana Horáková, Werner Schroeter |
| Director of photography: | Ivan Šlapeta |
| Editing: | Cathérine Brasier |
| Music: | Peer Raben |
| Cast: | |
| Carole Bouquet | Carole |
| Ida Di Benedetto | Schwester Elisabet |
| Ingrid Caven | Dr. Laura |
| Christine Kaufmann | Ruth |
| Tamara Kafka | Neue |
| Hermann Killmeyer | Markus |
| Dana Medřická | Frau Weber |
| Magdalena Montezuma | Zigeunerin |
| Marie-Luise Marjan | Schwester Marjan |
| Djadja Mustafa | Alexander |
| Production company: | Oko-Film GmbH Karel Dirka, München, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) (München) |
| Producer: | Karel Dirka |
All Credits
| Director: | Werner Schroeter |
| Assistant director: | Tamara Scheuffelen, Drahuše Králová |
| Script supervisor: | Cathérine Brasier, Helena Matušková |
| Screenplay: | Dana Horáková, Werner Schroeter |
| Story: | Dana Horáková |
| Director of photography: | Ivan Šlapeta |
| Still photography: | Jan Kudela |
| Titles / Opticals: | Peter Rosenwanger |
| Set design: | Zbynek Hloch (Szenenbild) |
| Prop master: | Christian Klein |
| Costume design: | Alberte Barsacq, Christine Kaufmann |
| Make-up artist: | Josef Lojik |
| Editing: | Cathérine Brasier |
| Assistant editor: | Moune Barius |
| Sound: | Karl Mösbauer |
| Audio mixing: | Willi Schwadorf |
| Music: | Peer Raben |
| Source music: | Anton Dworak |
| Cast: | |
| Carole Bouquet | Carole |
| Ida Di Benedetto | Schwester Elisabet |
| Ingrid Caven | Dr. Laura |
| Christine Kaufmann | Ruth |
| Tamara Kafka | Neue |
| Hermann Killmeyer | Markus |
| Dana Medřická | Frau Weber |
| Magdalena Montezuma | Zigeunerin |
| Marie-Luise Marjan | Schwester Marjan |
| Djadja Mustafa | Alexander |
| Production company: | Oko-Film GmbH Karel Dirka, München, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) (München) |
| manufactured by: | Genée & von Fürstenberg Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH, München |
| Producer: | Karel Dirka |
| Co-Producer: | Peter Genée |
| Producer (TV): | Jakob Hausmann, Norbert Bittmann |
| Line producer: | Peter Genée |
| Unit production manager: | Harald Kügler, Jan Balzer |
| Location manager: | Ursula Mellin, Václav Eisenhamer, Román Smitko |
| Shoot: | : ; 12.02.1981-03.04.1981: Prag, München |
| Original distributor: | Prokino Filmproduktion GmbH (München) |
| Funding: | Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin), Bundesministerium des Innern (BMI), Bonn |
| Length: | 3007 m, 110 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,66 |
| Picture/Sound: | Farbe, Ton |
| Rating: | FSK-Prüfung (DE): 13.10.1981, 52698, ab 18 Jahre / feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 31.10.1981, Hof, Filmtage; Kinostart (DE): 26.03.1982, München, Neues Arri; Kinostart (DE): 26.03.1982, Berlin, Broadway; TV-Erstsendung (DE): 04.11.1988, Bayern 3 |
Titles
| Originaltitel (DE) Tag der Idioten |
Versions
Original | |
| Length: | 3007 m, 110 min |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,66 |
| Picture/Sound: | Farbe, Ton |
| Rating: | FSK-Prüfung (DE): 13.10.1981, 52698, ab 18 Jahre / feiertagsfrei |
| Screening: | Uraufführung (DE): 31.10.1981, Hof, Filmtage; Kinostart (DE): 26.03.1982, München, Neues Arri; Kinostart (DE): 26.03.1982, Berlin, Broadway; TV-Erstsendung (DE): 04.11.1988, Bayern 3 |
Awards
| FBW 1981 |
| Prädikat: besonders wertvoll |




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