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The Night

Die Nacht

1985
Germany
feature film - Experimental
367 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

short description

For over six hours Edith Clever reads the texts of Syberberg and others.

Cast

Actor/-ess: Edith Clever

Direction

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Writing

Screenplay: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Based on: Louis-Ferdinand Céline; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Martin Heidegger; Heinrich Heine; Friedrich Nietzsche; Novalis; Plato; Chief Seattle; William Shakespeare; Richard Wagner; Heinrich von Kleist

Script supervisor: Gabriele Mattner

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Xaver Schwarzenberger

Assistant camera / focus puller: Michael Stöger

Decor

Set design: Manfred Dittrich

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Jutta Brandstaedter

Sound editor: Lothar Mankewitz

Music

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach; Richard Wagner

Production

Producer: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Editorial department: Willi Segler (ZDF); Christel Kolnigg (ORF)

Line producer: Renée Gundelach

Companies

Production company: TMS Film GmbH; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF); Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)