Horror vacui (film)

Horror Vacui
Horror Vacui
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rosa von Praunheim
Screenplay by	Cecil Brown; Marianne Enzensberger; Rosa von Praunheim;
Produced by	Rosa von Praunheim
Starring	Lotti Huber; Folkert Milster; Joaquin La Habana; Ingrid van Bergen;
Cinematography	Elfi Mikesch
Edited by	Mike Shephard; Rosa von Praunheim;
Music by	Marran Gosov
Production; company	Rosa Von Praunheim Filmproduktion
Release date	5 October 1984
Running time	85 minutes
Country	West Germany
Budget	DEM 350,000

Horror Vacui (German: Horror Vacui - Die Angst vor der Leere) is a 1984 German film directed by Rosa von Praunheim.^[1] Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in Berlin. One is studying art and the other medicine. Their happy life is disrupted when Frankie attends a lecture and quickly becomes involved in a sinister cult operating as a self-help group called "Optimal Optimism". 'Madame C', a former Nazi party member, is the leader of 'Optimal Optimism'. When the cult members discovers that Frankie is gay, he is repeatedly raped by both men and women of the group. Hannes must find a way to rescue him.^[1]

Cast[]

Lotti Huber as Madame C
as cult member
as Frankie
as Friedrich
as cult member
Ingrid van Bergen as Journalistin
(credited as Thomas Vogt) as Hannes

Notes[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Murray, Images in the Dark, p. 109

References[]

Murray, Raymond. Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video. TLA Publications, 1994, ISBN 978-1-880707-01-2

External links[]

Horror vacui at IMDb

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