Peter Weiss
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 6 (Director), 7 (Writer)
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The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of the Jean-Paul Marat. As the play progresses, the inmates become more and more possessed by the violence of the play and become extremely difficult to control. Finally, all chaos breaks loose. (imdb)
Studie II: Hallucinationer (1952) - Short Film
An attempt to catch the feelings and hallucinations felt just before sleep. (BFI)
A young man comes to Stockholm City and experiences several bizarre situations. (imdb)
Studie IV: Frigörelse (1955) - Short Film
Studie IV’ (1955) by Peter Weiss portrays a liberation process. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him, dragging something that constantly changes form but eventually turns out to be himself. It is an old and consumed I that disappears from him.
Studie V: Växelspel (1955) - Short Film
Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced against more realistic sections. Study V depicts a surrealistically charged encounter between two lovers, a young woman and a man.