A blind president rules by ear, his daughter burns it all down for job security.
A blind, paralyzed president uses his remarkable hearing and his corrupt daughter to keep his country in line. His beautiful, clever daughter works her own agenda while striving to be the equal of men. She appoints herself Chief of Firefighters and then commits arson to ensure that her job is needed.
Acting
Nathalie Nell's deadpan arsonist ambition
Direction
Stanojevic's claustrophobic court intrigue
Production
Surrealist decay as political aesthetic
Director
Stanislav Stanojevic
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1970s Eastern European surrealist cinema reacting to authoritarianism through grotesque allegory. Stanojevic, Serbian-French, channeled Yugoslav political absurdism.
Daniel Emilfork (Cagliostro) later played Krank in The City of Lost Children—same unsettling energy, different decade.
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