1969 · experimental · opera · underground
Eika Katappa
Directed by Werner Schroeter2h 24m1969
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.
Our read: Eika Katappa (1969) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal experimental · opera · underground entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured experimental / opera, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- signature
- intimate
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