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Eika Katappa: Directed by Werner Schroeter. With Gisela Trowe, Carla Egerer, Rosemarie Heinikel, Magdalena Montezuma. Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music - with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Werner Schroeter
- 1969-10-10
Werner Schroeter’s Eika Katappa, shot in color on 35mm film and clocking in at two hours and 22 minutes, is the culmination of the period of filmmaking that began in 1968 with Aggression.
Directed by Werner Schroeter. Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and death. Cast. Crew. Details. Releases.
- Werner Schroeter
- Werner Schroeter Filmproduktion
Eika Katappa is steeped in western cultural archetypes: from the mysteries of Christianity to middlebrow popular songs and the rhetoric of dramatic opera.
Eika Katappa is interminably long, highly repetitive, commitedly clichéd, and very camp indeed.
EIKA KATAPPA. Directed by. Werner Schroeter. West Germany, 1969. Musical, Comedy, Avant-Garde, Drama. 144. Synopsis. Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and death. Synopsis.
Sep 3, 2023 · Directed by Werner Schroeter. With Gisela Trowe, Magdalena Montezuma, Carla Aulaulau. West Germany, 1969, 35mm, color, 143 min. German, Italian and Spanish with no subtitles. Print source: EYE Filmmuseum. At the end of '79, Werner Schroeter said: "I made my first films from the depths of ideological and artistic confusion. It was around 1968.
