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A Dream, What Else?
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Wikipedia article
'A Dream, What Else?' is a 1995 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Hans-Jrgen Syberberg. It stars Edith Clever as Sybille von Bismarck, the daughter-in-law of Otto von Bismarck.
Plot
The film consists of a monologue where the main character, aged and widowed, mourns the defeat of Prussia at the end of World War II. She recites from 'The Trojan Women' by Euripides, 'The Prince of Homburg' by Heinrich von Kleist and 'Faust: Part II' (1832) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Production
The monologue was first performed on stage in Berlin in 1990 and toured several countries during the following years. The film was shot in the summer 1994 at Szene-Theater in Salzburg, Austria, for Szene Salzburg and ORF. It was produced through Syberberg's German company TMS Film.
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