Horror vacui (film)

Horror Vacui

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Produced by Rosa von Praunheim
Screenplay by Cecil Brown
Marianne Enzensberger
Rosa von Praunheim
Starring Lotti Huber
Folkert Milster
Joaquin La Habana
Ingrid van Bergen
Music by Marran Gosov
Cinematography Elfi Mikesch
Edited by Mike Shephard
Rosa von Praunheim
Production
company
Rosa Von Praunheim Filmproduktion
Release dates
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]

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  1. 1 2 Murray, Images in the Dark, p. 109

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