Freak Orlando
- Magdalena Montezuma: Orlando
- Delphine Seyrig: Helena Müller
- Albert Heins: Herbert Zeus
- Claudio Pantoja: 1 dancer
- Hiro Uchiyama: 2 dancers
- Galli Müller: chronicler
- Eddie Constantine: stylite
- Else Nabu: Holy Wilgeforte
- Stefan Menche: Lederboy
- Therese Zemp: Woman without a torso Left head
Freak Orlando is a film directed by Ulrike Ottinger from the year 1981.
Action
The appeared on the 1928 novel Orlando. The story of a life of Virginia Woolf ajar film is divided into five acts, in which the main character Orlando to age with different genders and without even hardly different eras from the Baroque period through to the present day lives.
In the first act Orlando is a noble man of about twenty at the court of King James I (England ) ( 1566-1625 ), the second an ambassador in Constantinople Opel commissioned by King James II (England ) ( 1633-1701 ) in the third round Orlando back as a woman in 18th century England and married there in the 19th century, a naval officer. In the 20th century, the now forty years old to Orlando leads a life similar to Woolf as an emancipated intellectuals and poet.
The film ends with a " Festival of the Ugly ", on which before a jury and accompanied by four dancing Playboy " Bunny " dance about the lame and cut short stature grimaces. The winner, however, after all, a bourgeois -acting pharmaceutical sales representatives will be chosen.
Performances
The film premiered on November 1, 1981 to the 15th Hof International Film Festival. To the film's release was held from 13 to 27 November 1981 exhibition " Freak Orlando. An overall artistic conception " held in the Berlin DAAD Gallery. In the following period he was also featured on a number of other international film festivals.
Reception
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy Films criticized the film as " fudge ".
For the film Ottinger in 1983 was awarded the second prize of the audience at the Film Festival of Sceaux.
The film is to Alice Kuzniars assessment is an important example of the display otherwise " not readable body " in the queer German cinema. Ottinger bring the " outside society living [ ... ] symbolic legitimacy ".