Day of the Idiots, dir. Werner Schroeter, West Germany 1981, 110 min.
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Recuperating in Saint Tropez from the stress induced by the production of Salomé, Schroeter met actress Carole Bouquet, 23 years-old and the star of Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire. Inspired by her stardom, his reading into anti-psychiatry and witch-hunting he set to work making Day of the Idiots, a raw study of confinement and disintegration set largely within the confines of a psychiatric hospital in Prague.
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06:30 pm
Thu, 19 Mar 2026
Cinema 1
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