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Actors: Robert Atzorn, Heinz Bennent, Martin Benrath, Christina Buchhegger
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about From the Life of the Marionettes |
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The Egermanns, a feuding, childless professional couple who turned up briefly in Ingmar Bergman's domestic epic "Scenes From a Marriage," are the center of this dark and disturbing 1980 movie, which Bergman made when he was in Germany during a tax-related exile. Peter Egermann, who has been having fantasies of killing his wife, brutally slays a prostitute in the first scene. The rest of the movie jumps around in time to sketch in the background to this crime, showing scenes from the couple's marriage, Peter's dreams, and the police psych investigation. Interestingly, the prologue leading up the murder and an epilogue with Peter in prison are filmed in color, but all the rest of the film is black and white. This is a very cold and depressing movie.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of From the Life of the Marionettes |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Wife
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 40's-50's
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
- rude people
Misc setting
- prison
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- unhappy
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- German
Subtitles?
- Yes
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