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Film / 1984
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Directed by
Ulrike Ottinger
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing (and then publicly destroying) its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.
The story
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing (and then publicly destroying) its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.
Cast
Veruschka von LehndorffDorian Gray / Don Luis de la Cerda
Delphine SeyrigDr. Mabuse / Grand Inquisitor of Seville
Tabea BlumenscheinAndamana
Toyo TanakaChinese Servant Hollywood / Narrator
Irm HermannPassat / Norn
Magdalena MontezumaGolem / Norn
Barbara ValentinSusy / Norn
Luc Alexander
Horst Benrath
Jonatan BrielDr. Spiegelwelt
Roderick Castillo
Robbie Darsano
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