The Night (1985)

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg and many different authors, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Plato, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Mörike, Richard Wagner, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, and Chief Seattle.

Released May 8, 1985 367 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.literature, tmdb.art, mdblist.one-actor, imdb.talking-to-the-camera, imdb.brechtian, imdb.reference-to-jesus-christ, imdb.prelude + 31 more, imdb.plato, imdb.philosophy, imdb.nietzsche, imdb.love, imdb.greek-tragedy, imdb.reference-to-god, imdb.end-of-the-world, imdb.apocalypse, imdb.singing, imdb.reading, imdb.poet, imdb.poetry, imdb.perceval, imdb.parsifal, imdb.opera, imdb.night, imdb.nighttime, imdb.native-american, imdb.musician, imdb.long-take, imdb.letter, imdb.king-ludwig-ii, imdb.german-literature, imdb.experimental-film, imdb.doom, imdb.death, imdb.cult-director, imdb.composer, imdb.black-and-white, imdb.anti-semitism, aspectratio.1-37-1