Day of the Idiots

1981 film
  • Dana Horaková
  • Werner Schroeter
Produced by
  • Karel Dirka
  • Peter Genée
  • Harald Kügler
Starring
  • Carole Bouquet
  • Ingrid Caven
  • Christine Kaufmann
CinematographyIvan SlapetaEdited byCatherine Brasier-SnopkoMusic byPeer RabenDistributed byOKO-Film
Release date
  • October 31, 1981 (1981-10-31) (West Germany)
Running time
110 min.CountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Day of the Idiots (German: Tag der Idioten) is a 1981 West German psychological fantasy film drama directed and written by Werner Schroeter. It stars Carole Bouquet as a disturbed mental patient with an inclination to remove her clothes and Ingrid Caven as Dr. Laura and Christine Kaufmann as Ruth.

The film was nominated for a Golden Palm Award at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival[1] and won best film at the 1982 German Film Awards going to director Werner Schroeter.

Cast

  • Carole Bouquet as Carole
  • Ingrid Caven as Dr. Laura
  • Christine Kaufmann as Ruth
  • Ida Di Benedetto as Elisabet
  • Carola Regnier as Ninon
  • Mostefa Djadjam as Alexander
  • Hermann Killmeyer as Markus
  • Marie-Luise Marjan as Schwester Marjan
  • Magdalena Montezuma as Zigeunerin
  • George Stamkoski as himself
  • Tamara Kafka
  • Dana Medřická
  • Fritz Schediwy
  • Jana Plichtová

References

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Day of the Idiots". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2009-06-12.

External links

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