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Film/Video
The Elephant Man
by David Lynch
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| 5 EUR, red. 2,50 EUR |
| Book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| Feature film, USA, 1980, 124 minutes, English with German subtitles |
| English |
| Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
| Part of: Terrible Beauty film series |
Eye-to-eye introduction by John Akomfrah, filmmaker and artist, UK
London, in the eve of the 19th century. In a freak show, a doctor discovers John Merrick, ‘the Elephant Man’, who suffers from a rare disease. The young man becomes an attraction in the Victorian society. Lynch adapts the life’s story of this man, whose name in real life was Joseph Merrick, as a biopic and subtle historical drama. In his “Eye-to-Eye” introduction John Akomfrah elaborates on the film’s history of origin and explores interesting references to the current debate about the term ‘race.’