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The Malady of Death

1985

1h 5m

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Overview

In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an eccentric fascination for the female form and is paid both for her sexual favors and for lying there naked and letting him examine the aesthetics of her body. For most of the hour, as the concise narration of Marguerite Duras' novel on eroticism and aesthetics fills the aural gaps, actress Marie Colbin's form fills the visual gaps. But unless viewers consider the feminine eyeball or microscopic views of skin exotic and worth lingering over, the eroticism lies more in the imagination than on the screen. In fact, the female body lying on the bed, taken away from the spirit that animates it, is really just a corpse -- raising the question, exactly what is the "malady of death?"

Status: Released

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies

ORF MR Filmproduktion

Production Countries

Austria

Spoken Languages

German

Quick Facts

Original Title	Das Mal des Todes
Release Date	March 26, 1985
Status	Released
Language	DE
IMDb ID	tt1242756

Cast

Marie Colbin

The Anonymous Woman

Peter Handke

The Narrator (voice)

Key Crew

Peter Handke

Director

Peter Handke

Screenplay

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