A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire's satire "Candide".
Acting
Nick Cave brooding like his life depends on it.
Direction
Sempel's fragmented, music-video-as-narrative gamble.
Costume
Lene Lovich's eyeliner could cut glass.
Director
Peter Sempel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during the peak of Nick Cave's Berlin heroin years, which explains approximately everything.
This is basically the missing link between 80s post-punk excess and the slow cinema that would dominate European festivals a decade later.
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