US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
1993
Ludwig 1881
Wednesday
Jun 8, 1994
@
8:00 pm
10th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef Kainz, to act out the scenes from a story which took place on the lake, at the actual locations.
In the summer of 1881, King Ludwig II of Bavaria traveled to Lake Lucerne with Joseph Kainz, an actor in his court, to recreate scenes from Schiller’s William Tell in their authentic settings. Against stunning Alpine backdrops, this film records the historical rise of aestheticism as well as the way power plays itself out in even platonic, yet homoerotic, relationships. The directors have cast Helmet Berger, the star of Luchino Visconti’s 1975 Ludwig, as the same character here.
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