Liebeskonzil
Liebeskonzil is a 1982 film by Werner Schroeter, based on an 1894 play by Oskar Panizza. It was banned by the Austrian government in 1985, on the grounds that it insulted the Christian religion. In 1994, in the case of Otto-Preminger-Institut v. Austria, the European Court of Human Rights held by 6 votes to 3 that the banning of the film was a justifiable limitation on the freedom of expression, because the film would offend Austrian Roman Catholics. Panzizzi's original work had also led its author to face blasphemy charges in the nineteenth century.
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9.0Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza satirically presents as the punishment from Satan for sexually active humans. As a result, Panizza was imprisoned for obscenity. Schroeter alternates scenes from the Panizza’s work with a dramatization of his trial, presenting the play as an expressionist spectacle performed by actors wearing exaggerated makeup who gesture and grimace grotesquely. The film thus forms a bridge between Schroeter’s use of tableaux in his early experiments with the political urgency of his 1980s films. On the eve of the AIDS crisis, Schroeter is presciently worried about disease as an excuse for governmental repression and the oppression of sexuality. - Harvard Film Archive
Released: 1982-03-1292 minDir: Werner SchroeterDrama
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- Antonio Salines as Teufel / Dr. Panizza
- Magdalena Montezuma as Doppelzeugin
- Kurt Raab as Gerichtspräsident
- Renzo Rinaldi as Gottvater
- Margit Carstensen as Staatsanwältin
- Heinrich Giskes as Verteidiger
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Liebeskonzil is a 1982 film by Werner Schroeter, based on an 1894 play by Oskar Panizza. It was banned by the Austrian government in 1985, on the grounds that it insulted the Christian religion. In 1994, in the case of Otto-Preminger-Institut v. Austria, the European Court of Human Rights held by 6 votes to 3 that the banning of the film was a justifiable limitation on the freedom of expression, because the film would offend Austrian Roman Catholics. Panzizzi's original work had also led its author to face blasphemy charges in the nineteenth century.
==Synopsis== As with Panizza's original play, the film depicts God as senile, Christ as intellectually disabled and the Virgin Mary as both promiscuous and firmly in charge of negotiations with Satan over the development of a new sexually transmitted infection (syphilis) to plague the non-monogamous orthodoxy of the Vatican under Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). Satan and Salome produce a daughter who will infect the rest of humanity.
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1980s avant-garde and experimental films1982 films1982 German films1982 German-language filmsArticle 10 of the European Convention on Human RightsEuropean Court of Human Rights cases involving AustriaFilms critical of the Catholic ChurchGerman avant-garde and experimental filmsGerman films based on playsWest German films