View Item - GR-B044-1982

Language:
German
Catalog Num:
GR-B044-1982
Title:
Besuch der alten Dame
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
VHS
Program:
German

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

Durrenmatt called this story "A Tragic Comedy." More than any other of his plays, this story of an old lady who returns home to wreak an exact and merciless vengeance on her former lover intimately joins comedy and tragedy to support each other in nearly every scene. The play really has three major characters: the old lady, Claire Zachanassian; her former lover and object of her ruthless justice, Alfred lll; and the people of the town of Gullen, who make up a kind of composite representation of society itself. Through these characters, Durrenmatt is able to give the audience a darkly comic, breathless, and in the end, unanswerable debate about the nature of justice, redemption and community. Director: Max Peter Ammann. Actors: Maria Schell. Color. No Subtitles.

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