Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel "The Aesthetics of Resistance".
Peter Weiss' monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four hours, ...
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A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and fantasies linked to tourism in Sweden are contradicted by the geopolitics of capitalist imperialism, in parti ...
Watch NowA symbolic reconstruction of the Auschwitz process in Frankfurt in 1963-1965. Litigation against those responsible for the mass extermination in German prison camps during the Second World War. ...
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In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction o ...
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The Investigation (1965) is TV version of a play by German playwright Peter Weiss that depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–1965. ...
Watch Now24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school. ...
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A heavy drug addict in his junkie quarter at Österlånggatan, Stockholm. ...
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Uncompleted portrait of an artist. Fragmentary images from Öyvind Fahlström's studio, with paintings, collages and Fahlström's friendship gathered around a table. ...
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A documentary film about the 99 year old artist Anna Casparsson. She is interviewed by Peter Weiss in her home in Saltsjöbaden. "I shot 'Anna Casparsson' together with Staffan Lamm. I had wanted to complete the film, but somehow I did not get around to it ...
Watch NowIn a single room, Peter Weiss has captured the environment of two drug addicts, without ever showing their faces in the film. ...
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A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations. ...
Watch NowA film about the youth prison in Uppsala, which focuses on one intern's alienation and anxiety. ...
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Deals with young people dealing and using drugs of all kind. ...
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Surrealistic images of Faust-Mephisto in his fantastic laboratory. ...
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A surrealistic and symbolic depiction of the liberation of the self in a series of associative scenes. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him, dragging something that constantly changes form but eventually turns out ...
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Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced against more realistic sections. A surrealistically charged encounter between two lovers, a young woman and a man. ...
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In this preliminary study for Study IV "Liberation" a man hauls his alter ego through various spaces. The scene is reminiscent of Luis Buñuel's "An Andalusian Dog", where the man drags along a piano, two priests, and two dead donkeys. Weiss was not happy ...
Watch NowTwelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs and objects form surrealistic collages against the background of a black space. Peter Weiss intended to create associative images tha ...
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The day begins for an avant-garde artist. We see him waking up amid empty bottles, easels, and silk stockings. ...
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A personal portrayal of Peter Weiss' period as a painter and filmmaker in Sweden before his rise to fame. ...
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A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory. This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen Belsen, the last of 11 concentration camps where he was held by the Nazis. He ...
Watch Now24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school. ...
Watch NowIn this preliminary study for Study IV "Liberation" a man hauls his alter ego through various spaces. The scene is reminiscent of Luis Buñuel's "An Andalusian Dog", where the man drags along a piano, two priests, and two dead donkeys. Weiss was not happy ...
Watch NowTwelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs and objects form surrealistic collages against the background of a black space. Peter Weiss intended to create associative images tha ...
Watch NowThe day begins for an avant-garde artist. We see him waking up amid empty bottles, easels, and silk stockings. ...
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