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Die Bettkönigin

The Bed Queen

Switzerland, August 1994
FILM, Fiction, 53 min.

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directed by
Gabriel Baur
Written by
Gabriel Baur
Status
In distribution
Website
www.onixfilms.com/?page_id=237&lang=en

The story of a woman who goes on strike: in a fit of anarchic revolt she simply decides to stay in bed - and refuses, like some distaff Oblomov, to see to the thousand and one chores that await her. At 33, Amalia is not getting much out of life. What with the kids, the job and the housework, which take up her waking hours. She has been wearing herself out without getting any satisfaction. When she puts her subversive plan into operation, her husband at first dances attendance on her. She is having fun with her girlfriends, sings, dreams and draws the neighbors into her game. But he quickly begins to feel its all too much for him and tries everything to get her out of bed - which only suceeds in strengthening the lady's resolve. The husband invites disaster when he brings a record producer and a television crew to her bedside... A placid, melancolic social parable, with surreal touches that only add to its sense of provocation.

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World Premiere
August 1994
Original Version
German,  colour, 16mm, 53 min.
Production
ONIX Film GmbH
Producer
Kurt Mäder, Gabriel Baur
directed by
Gabriel Baur
Written by
Gabriel Baur
Cinemato­graphy
Ciro Cappellari
Music
Catherine Azad
Location Sound Mix
Ingrid Städeli
Production Design
Meisi Timm
Costumes
Judith Hentz

Cast

Imogen Kogge
Bruno Cathomas

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ONIX Film GmbH

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