Mea Culpa – A ReadyMadeOpera (2009)

2h 0m · 11 Oct 2009

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In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates the healthy from the sick. By making his cancer the subject of an opera, premiering on the largest German-speaking theater, he is putting the art district under pressure: a wonderful institution like the Burgtheater must use its artistic resources lavishly to reveal the entire "truth" about us humans. At the end of the day, when the scenery on Janina Audick's revolving stage has finally come to rest, when Isolde's last Liebestad has been sung enchantingly beautifully by Elfriede Rezabek and indescribable jubilation breaks out, then Schlingensief is completely alone with his illness.

Movie ID	11140
Genre	Music
Director	Christoph Schlingensief
Main cast	Margit Carstensen, Gerda Cerne, Fritzi Haberlandt, Sachiko Hara, Friederike Harmsen, Irm Hermann, Carina-Roxana Isima, Lynne Kieran
Release date	11 October 2009
Release year	2009
Language	German
Duration	120 min (2h 0m)
Rating	–
Production house	Hoanzl