Peter HANDKE

L'Absence

Venice 1992 – Official Selection

In this t3ale, the scenes are simultaneously clear and labyrinthine.

Four people, the old man, the young woman, the soldier and the player walk around an imaginary topography across continents. They escape from their everyday existence. Each one of them starts out, alone, only to meet up and form a group, which is to move along like an expedition. Suddenly they come across a clearing, a city, a desert, an ocean. They all follow the ardent desire that drove them to leave.

Through their conversations, their discussions, rejoinders, monologues and dreams, they tell the story.

One day, the old man disappears, he who had guided the group. What remains is the search and the dream of finding hem again.

Cast: Jeanne MOREAU – Alex DESCAS – Bruno GANZ – Sophie SEMIN – Eustaquio BARJAU

 France – 1992 – 35mm – Color – 1/66 – 110mn

Credits

Screenplay

Peter Handke

Director

Peter Handke

Image

Agnès Godard

Sound

Jean-Paul Mugel

Decoration

Marie-Josée Branco

Editing

Peter Przygodda

Producer

Paulo Branco

 

GEMINI FILMS, PARIS

Coproducers

Wim Wenders,

 

Ulrich Felberg

 

ROAD MO VIES, BERLIN

 

Adrian Lipp

 

MAREA FILMES, MADRID